On Thursday, the Premier will give a press conference while the leader of the main opposition party New Democracy s Kostas Karamanlis will give a press conference today. The Minister of National Economy and Finance Yiannos Papantoniou announced that restructure measures are to be drawn and changes will take place in the labor and insurance sectors. Moreover, Mr. Papantoniou ruled out the possibility of another devaluation of the drachma, stated that the unemployment rate in Greece will be reduced by the year 2001 and added that by the year 2002 automobile prices will be lower thanks to the Euro. However, the main opposition party New Democracy is stating that the whole matter is a national failure. According to reports, Serb policemen stationed at the Bonosevac village near the border with Albania have seized 200 members of the Kossovo Liberating Army and have opened fire.
Unconfirmed reports mention dozens of injured.
More than 150 people have died since a Serb police crackdown two months ago against so-called Kossovo Liberation army. In raids on Albanian villages and on alleged smugglers, the authorities claim to have confiscated more than five tons of weapons. Also yesterday about 1,500 independence-minded Kossovo Albanians held their 24th daily march in downtown Pristhina. The independence movement has grown stronger, and a western area of Kossovo is virtually controlled by the clandestine and militant Liberation Army. The meeting was attended by National Economy and Finance Minister Yiannos Papantoniou and Finance Undersecretary Nikos Christodoulakis.