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 Bill to accelerate divorces, adoptions |
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| A new draft bill, to be submitted in Parliament this week, foresees a swifter process for issuing divorces, provisions to promote the joint custody of children when a couple divorces and the simplification of the state adoption system.
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| Rape victim slams state system |
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| Greek authorities should push through the necessary reforms to facilitate the process for rape victims seeking justice, the 31-year-old Canadian victim of a sex attack has told Kathimerini after the trial of her alleged attacker was postponed for a third time this week.
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| Vatopedi land deal defended |
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| After days of adopting a conciliatory approach, the Mount Athos monastery involved in a controversial land deal with the government went on the attack yesterday, saying that it had done nothing wrong...
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| Organ donations up but numbers still low |
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| Organ donations have increased by 20 percent in Greece since August, when the parents of Doujon Zammit, the Australian tourist murdered on Myconos, decided to offer their son's organs to save the lives of four people.
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TO OUR READERS
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| Kathimerini English Edition and the IHT will not be available tomorrow due to a 24-hour strike called by the ESIEA journalists’ union. We will be back on Friday. Athens Plus will also be published as normal on Friday.
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OA and OSE staff take grievances to the street
A woman watches a protest by employees of Olympic Airlines (OA) and the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) outside the Transport Ministry in Athens yesterday. |
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EDITORIAL |
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No more talk, just action
The Vatopedi affair must be settled on strictly legal grounds and not just with statements meant to impress, and the solution must entail the return to the state of all the assets that have been lost.
In the case of embattled Olympic Airlines, the government needs to come up with a viable solution, while on the pension fund front the reform package must be put into practice.
These, among others, are some of the most pressing problems facing Greece right now and a solution must be found even though we are in the midst of a global financial crisis. |
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EDITORIAL:AthensPlus |
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Waste not, want not
Greece consumes more than it is able to produce. It is also relatively poor in the natural resources necessary for manufacturing and fuel production. This means that it has to import a lot more than it can export, which leads to an endless cycle of borrowing to finance the imports and, consequently, ever-widening deficits that undermine the country's future development. A natural solution would be to pursue better waste management. |
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