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Crackdown on spending Creation of task force to check finances of state-funded bodies is imminent

A spending clampdown bill, part of the government's latest bid to monitor public bodies that are frittering away state funds and which creates a team of inspectors with the power to investigate cases of wasteful spending, is to be submitted to Parliament very soon, sources told Kathimerini yesterday.
FRONT PAGE NEWS
US envoy launches Cyprus mission
A senior US diplomat yesterday kicked off a series of meetings in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus in what is seen as...
New delivery hours to cut pollution
In a move that had a distinct whiff of last summer's Olympic Games about it, the government yesterday approved...
Toll of Easter crashes up to 42
As the steady flow of Athenians returning from their Easter vacations continued yesterday...
Loizidou to get back her home?
Nearly five years after an historic ruling by the European Court of Human Rights forced Turkey to compensate...
Dozens of cars queue to cross...
Dozens of cars queue to cross the Green Line into Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus...
Captain’s code error triggered pirate alert
A feared pirate attack on a Norwegian cement freighter off southern Greece, which triggered...
IN BRIEF
Today is first in series of deadlines for taxpayers to submit declarations : Today is the deadline for the submission of income tax...
PM and FM discuss Turkey, Cyprus, FYROM ahead of premier's US trip : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis yesterday discussed...
Work to start soon, minister says : The construction of a Greek-Turkish natural gas pipeline...
Cretan quake : A moderate undersea quake, measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale...
Lake Karla : An extra 8 million euros in credit has been approved...
Flower shows : A series of flower shows, hosted by the City of Athens...
Migrants detained : Coast guard officials on Samos on Monday detained...
Four-way talks : Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer has welcomed a proposal...
Cyprus resignation : Cyprus's attorney general, Solon Nikitas, yesterday submitted his resignation...
Hania robbery : Two armed robbers netted around 60,000 euros yesterday...

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EDITORIAL
Galvanizing consumer rights
 The recent survey on Greek consumer behavior by the market research firm ICAP confirmed what we already knew. The Greek public has yet to show signs of a full-grown consumer conscience, despite making remarkable strides in the past few years. The consumers' movement is still in the near future, since no initiatives have had a strong enough market impact to slow down unscrupulous producers or importers.
COMMENTARY
The ‘PASOK system’
 The recent fuss concerning the allegedly extravagant perks enjoyed by the chairman of the Agricultural Bank of Greece is indicative of a more general problem facing the conservative government. After 14 months in power, New Democracy has yet to conduct a real audit of the PASOK-installed system of governance. Despite their fierce criticism of the so-called «PASOK system» before the elections, the conservatives have taken almost no steps to «reinvent the state,» which they once promised to do.
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