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Greek diplomats brace for pressure at NATO summit Gov’t has the country’s ‘full political backing’ for FYROM veto, FM notes Greece's top diplomats have the whole country behind them in barring Skopje's bid to join NATO for as long as the Macedonia name dispute remains unresolved, Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said yesterday as she prepared to travel to Bucharest for a crucial alliance summit.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Municipalities at top of gripe list

Complaints submitted to the Greek Ombudsman last year rose by 15 percent, the majority of which were prompted...

EU gives Athens trash warning

A European Commission official warned Greece yesterday that Athens needs to sort out its waste management problem quickly...

Couples law not for gays

Justice Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis said yesterday that the government is not intending to extend its plans...

More help on the way for addicts

A national action plan aimed at improving care for drug addicts and boosting the process of reintegrating them into society...

Kindergarten owner held for alleged abuse

The male owner of a preschool center in central Athens was arrested for allegedly sexually molesting a 5-year-old girl...

IN BRIEF

Film director to be buried next to wife at Athens's First Cemetery today : The burial of film director Jules Dassin is due to take place...

Coroners say former IKA chief believed to have died from head injuries : The former head of the Social Security Foundation (IKA) Yiannis Vartholomaios...

Union head facing penalty for criticism : The head of Greece's prosecutors' union, Sotiris Bayias is facing...

Helicopter investigation : The army said yesterday a helicopter crash last month...

Referendum vote : Lawmakers started a two-day debate yesterday...

Train disruption : Construction work on a section of the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway...

Smack for gadgets : A 32-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki accused...

Emergency landing : A firefighting aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing...


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Athens University... President of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) Alexis Tsipras addressed...
EDITORIAL

Mutual steps, better neighbors Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is not traveling to Bucharest on his own. He has the clear backing of all of Greece's political leaders and the desire of all Greeks to solve the Macedonia name dispute in a mutually beneficial fashion. Greece has shown great maturity in the final stage of negotiations. It avoided populist cries and noisy sound bites aimed at public consumption, unlike some of the parties in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

COMMENTARY

Preparing for the storm Greece is going to need nerves of steel over the next days and weeks, as its veto of FYROM's NATO membership is certain to irk Washington and other parts of the world. The prime minister seems ready to face the first major challenge in Bucharest and he is probably enjoying the fact that his handling of the issue will add a certain air of Andreas Papandreou to his profile. The real battle, however, will come later and this will require a very cool head. Greece will get slammed on a global scale.

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