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Reprieved at last!

a sum of us $4.73 million! This is the total fine Greece paid for running an illegal waste dump. The European Commission, which had been fining the country since July 2000, stopped doing so after the dump was closed recently. "I am satisfied that the illegal dumping has been stopped by the Greek authorities. But there is still a big clean-up job to be done,' said Margot Wallstr

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