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Poultry farms facing ruin Producers say that bird flu has scared off customers, putting jobs at risk Greece's poultry industry, which produces 1.5 billion eggs a year and keeps some 15,000 people in employment, is in danger of collapsing due to plummeting sales which have been caused by bird flu fears, market experts told Kathimerini yesterday.

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Church respects right to cremate

The Church of Greece yesterday welcomed a new law allowing for the cremation of the non-Orthodox Christian dead and suggested it might be softening...

FM offers support to Balkans

Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis yesterday expressed Greece's willingness to play a key role in offering economic and political support to Balkan states...

Piraeus halts tram in tracks

The tram has found friends hard to come by and although it is nearly two years since it returned to Athens after a break of some 40 years, Piraeus officials were adamant...

Plan aims at taming motorists

Drivers are to be monitored by 400 more speed cameras on improved national highways, according to an Public Works Ministry plan which aims at fighting...

Schoolboy’s day off has officials in a spin

A schoolboy who said someone tried to kidnap him yesterday led to a police mobilization and the education minister denouncing the alleged criminals before the child capitulated...

IN BRIEF

Diplomats to meet after discovery of excessive pesticide in Greek apples : Greece's Ambassador in Moscow Ilias Klis is due to have talks...

Government steers clear of claims that US Embassy was involved : The government insisted yesterday that it had nothing to add...

White Tower area ready by Easter : Mayor of Thessaloniki Vassilis Papageorgopoulos said...

GSEE targeted : A group of hooded youths yesterday afternoon hurled Molotov...

University places : The Education Ministry said yesterday that it will up...

Myconos drugs : Drug squad officers arrested two Greek men and sized...

Exploding rubbish : A number of windows were smashed in the neighborhood...

Four injured : Four passengers, including three soldiers, were injured...

Small earthquake : An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale hit Halkidiki...

Petrol fines : The Athens Prefecture slapped 29,000 euros' worth of fines...

Kite flying : The Public Power Corporation (PPC) warned kite fliers on Monday...


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EDITORIAL

Shortsighted solutions The announcement yesterday by the Education Ministry that it intends to increase by 2,000 the number of students entering Greece's universities has triggered the recurring skepticism about the country's chronic failures in its education system. The problems dogging Greece's education system are connected to quality, not quantity. In addition, they are persistent ones. This means that any government campaign to solve them must also be persistent and painstaking.

COMMENTARY

Tactical victories Less than two years has passed since April 2004. It's too soon to forget but a useful point at which to assess the repercussions of the Annan Plan rejection. Those who indulged in scaremongering before and after the referendum have not exactly been engaged in self-criticism. This is no surprise, of course. Up until a few days ago, champions of the plan insisted that Nicosia is faced with international isolation. Tassos Papadopoulos's objections had no doubt caused intense reaction...

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