Athens News Agency: News in English, 11-03-13

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[01] Athens condemns latest provocation in Turkish-occupied Cyprus with arrest of MEPs

[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines 

[01] Athens condemns latest provocation in Turkish-occupied Cyprus with arrest of MEPs

"This is an illegal act by an illegal regime, and a blatant disregard of European institutions," foreign ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras said.

Cypriot MEP Eleni Theocharous, Bulgarian MEP Mariya Nedelcheva along with Polish MEPs Jaroslav Walesa (the son of former Polish president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa) and Artur Zasada were detained with Cypriot Orthodox Metropolitan Porfyrios. The latter is the Cypriot Church's Brussels-based delegate to the EU and an expert on pillaged and desecrated cultural heritage in the occupied north. Another two Greek Cypriots, former MP Yiannakis Matsis and Loizos Afxentious, were also detained.

According to an ANA-MPA dispatch from Nicosia on Sunday, Matsis and Afxentious continue to be held, possibly on "charges" by the pseudo-state of entering a forbidden military zone, namely, the fenced-off area of Varosha.

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[02] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The fall-out from Friday's Eurogroup decision to extend the repayment period and to slash the interest rate of the 110-billion-euro bailout package for Greece, speculation over new austerity measures and exploitation of state property and assets, along with the ubiquitous reports of snap elections and government reshuffles mostly dominated the headlines in the Sunday editions of Athens' newspapers.

AVGHI: "Defence of democracy in Greece, Europe a debt for all".

AVRIANI: "Nuclear nightmare from explosion at reactor in Japan".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "Solution 'package' with sell-off worth 50 billion euros and government reshuffle".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "Small carrot, big stick (by EU towards Greece)".

EPOCHI: "Breather for government, asphyxiation in society (from Eurogroup decision)".

ETHNOS: "Respite from Brussels with tough conditions for Greece".

KATHIMERINI: "Breath of life with very strict conditions (by EU for Greece)."

LOGOS: "Prime minister's headache over lack of communication between ministers".

NIKI: "The 'haircut' and our bank deposits".

PARON (weekly): "(Government VP Theodoros) Panagalos: End! Crumbs and new measures bring about snap elections or reshuffle".

PROTO THEMA (weekly): "Raw command by Commissioner Olli Rehn: 'Sell property and save wages of 10 years'."

REALNEWS (weekly): "Reshuffle now a given, with PM George Papandreou now searching for ministers outside (ruling) PASOK".

RIZOSPASTIS: "Block anti-popular measures with organised popular disobedience," is the headline of the communist party's newspaper.

TO VIMA (weekly): "Agreement, breather the message towards markets".

VRADYNI: "Tsunamis of new (austerity) measures".

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