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Regional progress masks uncertainty

By Kerin Hope

Published: June 20 2005 15:20 | Last updated: June 20 2005 15:20

It was a momentary flashback from Kiev to last summer’s Olympics: a young woman draped in a giant blue and white Greek flag, making a gesture of victory to a cheering crowd.

But this time the acclamation was for singer Helena Paparizou, the Sweden-born daughter of Greek immigrants who had just won the Eurovision song contest for Greece.

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