Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-06-29

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ministerial conference held Sunday on the island of Corfu under the Greek OSCE Chairmanship, a Greek-US Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed on the sidelines of the conference between Greece and the US that paves the way for Greece's incorporation in the US visa waiver program, Saturday's NATO-Russia Council (NCR) meeting at foreign minister level on Corfu, which was the first NRC high-level meeting since the crisis in the Caucasus and during which the two sides agreed to resume dialogue on a broad range of security threats and their military-to-military contacts, and speculation of early general elections by March were the main front-page items in Monday's newspapers.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Russia-NATO relations 'unfrozen' - Corfu: The prime minister's (Costas Karamanlis) initiatives bore fruit".

APOGEVMATINI: "They (NATO and Russia) extended their hands to each other on Greek territory - Greece's major foreign policy success on Corfu: Greek diplomacy brought East and West closer".

AVRIANI: "The OSCE conference a major success of Karamanlis, Dora (foreign minister Bakoyannis) - All 56 OSCE countries attended - Visa requirement for the US (for Greek citizens) to be abolished".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Lasting tribulation with the E9 tax form (on real estate holdings) and the Unified Real Estate Duty (ETAK) - Tax Bureau asking for submission of forms for the third time from 1.3 million citizens, due to chaos..."

ESTIA: "Early elections would be a lethal mistake - Cultivation of election-mongering is wrong".

ETHNOS: "The plan on the semi-enclosed balconies - New duty to be announced this week, following the tax storm".

TA NEA: "The 'A' students' exam results sharply raise the university entry base passing grades by up to 700 grade points".

VRADYNI: "Elections (early general) to be 'locked in' by March - KKE (Communist Party of Greece) rules out any margin of cooperation on election of President of the Republic (due in March in parliament, as failure of the present parliament to elect a President will force early general elections)".

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