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FYROM veto seems likely Athens defiant in face of growing US pressure for Skopje’s NATO accession Athens yesterday dug its heels in further on the Macedonia name dispute, saying it would veto Skopje's bid to join NATO at an alliance summit this week unless a compromise is reached on the Balkan country's name.

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Rubber stamp put on reforms

The conservative government gave the final nod to the pension reforms in Parliament late yesterday...

Water a scarce commodity

Despite the weekend showers, rainfall in Greece is down significantly in some areas this year and concerns...

‘Assassin’ shot dead by rivals

A 38-year-old nightclub owner, known to police as an alleged hit man and a powerful figure in the Athens underworld...

Alarm bells sound over arid land

Changes in farming techniques and management of underground water resources are needed...

Vavilis freed on bail due to scant evidence

Three years ago, he was Greece's most wanted man, implicated in a series of church scandals, but yesterday Apostolos Vavilis was released...

IN BRIEF

US director and husband of Melina Mercouri dies in Athens at age 96 : Jules Dassin, the US filmmaker and husband of Greek actress...

Charges for driving on national highways soar by up to 100 percent : Drivers traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki will be hit...

Nikoloutsopoulos asks for release : Lawyer Christos Nikoloutsopoulos, a key witness in the alleged blackmail...

Gambling den : Police in Thessaloniki have smashed an illegal gambling operation...

Power protest : Local authority officials in western Attica are to close down...

Isolated islands : Residents of Icaria and the nearby islet of Fournoi staged a demonstration...

Electricity bills : Consumers with that expired yesterday have been given...

Tram disruption : Tram drivers will hold a four-hour work stoppage on Thursday...


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Seagulls... Seagulls fly over scavengers rooting through trash on the landfill at Fyli in northwestern Athens...

EDITORIAL

No deal, no NATO We can only welcome the fact that the Socialist opposition leader George Papandreou has asked for a meeting with Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis that will take place early today. The meeting between the two leaders is sending the right message. As Karamanlis will be meeting with the other leaders of NATO member states in Bucharest, he will have the majority of Greece's public behind him.

COMMENTARY

It’s just a day, it’ll pass It's a good thing that the prime minister himself has asked for the pension reform bill to be reviewed, that he knows that despite Parliament's broad support for the bill, the people had already spoken through numerous protests marches and public opinion polls, that he also knows that a «no» - no change to basic retirement ages, no increase in social security contributions and no reductions in main pensions, as promised in his pre-election campaign - can never become a «yes.»

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