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Athens braces for US pressure over FYROM NATO chief visits after talks break down Greek diplomats are today bracing for a visit by the chief of NATO following a breakdown in talks between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) that had been aimed at solving the Macedonia name dispute.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Derby draw keeps Greens top

Panathinaikos salvaged a 1-1 draw away to AEK last night thanks to an equalizer midway through the second half...

Bomb hoaxers toy with city

Two bomb hoaxes, one claimed by a leftist group, caused upheaval in central Athens and the northern suburbs...

Poll spells misery for PASOK

George Papandreou's leadership of PASOK was dealt a blow yesterday, just days ahead of the party's conference...

Kurdish demonstrators staged...

Kurdish demonstrators staged a rally in central Athens on Saturday...

Authorities foil sale of precious Roman statue

Two men have been arrested in Thessaloniki on suspicion of trying to sell an illegally excavated Roman period statue...

IN BRIEF

Consumers asked to curb power use this week due to fears of blackouts : The Public Power Corporation (PPC) yesterday appealed...

Documentary festival Thessaloniki director speaks out : The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is...

Giannakou meeting : Doctors at the Henry Dunant hospital in Athens were meeting...

Ride-by shooting : A 20-year-old man was shot dead on Acharnon Avenue...

Liner deja vu : A tugboat ran aground off Santorini yesterday at exactly the same spot...

Mild quakes : Two mild quakes, both measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale, struck...


THIS WEEK

Monday : NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visits Athens...

Tuesday : Cypriot President Dimitris Christofias holds his first official visit to Athens...

Wednesday : A demonstration over the Macedonia name dispute is to be held...

Thursday : Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to attend...

Friday : The 10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival begins...

Saturday : The fifth conference on «Pediatric Subspecialities» begins...


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EDITORIAL

A waste of time and energy A series of poor decisions and tardiness by Greece's governments during the 1990s combined with the insistence of some of the country's Western allies that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) be recognized as «Macedonia» should not make Greece behave as some second-class statelet. Greece has its own, important role in the Balkans. It is a prominent member of Mediterranean Europe and cannot afford to jeopardize its image by dealing with distrustful and fixated interlocutors.

COMMENTARY

Slogans, slights and diplomacy Until recently, mass popular sentiment was expressed mainly through demonstrations. These are a means of exerting pressure on a government and, when relations with another country are involved, to send a message to the «other side.» This has always been a double-edged sword, as illustrated by the events in Istanbul in 1955 when, in response to demonstrations in Greece and Cyprus, a Turkish mob destroyed the lives and property of Greeks.

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