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Six members of international passport forgery ring arrested in Greece

A joint operation between the police forces of Germany, Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden and the Czech Republic, supervised by Europol, led to the arrest of 38 people believed to belong to a European-wide ring producing and distributing forged passports and other identification documents.

Six of the arrests were made in Greece.

Greek PM to meet Juncker in Brussels, host Coelho, Rajoy in Athens

After a flurry of meetings and telephone calls with European officials, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is set to meet with incoming European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker at a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels on Saturday where he is expected to emphasize Greece’s progress in reforms ahead of next week's crucial negotiations with the troika in Paris.

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