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Shake-up for universities Panel unveils proposed changes, including teaching in foreign languages Eight academics who were given the task of finding ways to improve Greek tertiary education suggested yesterday that the country's universities should pursue closer ties with institutions abroad, possibly leading to foreign professors teaching here.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Option of fund for jobless pondered

The creation of the first fund of its type to provide financial relief for workers in areas hit by economic problems is the next move being considered by the government as part...

Erdogan’s visit played down

Greek government sources yesterday sought to play down a scheduled meeting between...

Thessaloniki is gasping for air

Thessaloniki continues to be one of Europe's most polluted cities despite a drop, recorded over...

Cigarette smugglers fired up

More than 3 million packets of cigarettes exported from Greece and then illegally smuggled back...

American director and actor Tim Robbins smiles...

American director and actor Tim Robbins smiles...

A third of drivers snub rules during holidays

One in three drivers stopped in Attica over the last two weeks, which included the Easter and May Day holidays, had been involved...

IN BRIEF

Police to set up station at Hellenikon; thousands to monitor proceedings : A makeshift police station will be operating at the site of the old airport...

Authorities in Ioannina and Samos detain migrants arriving in Greece : Police on the eastern Aegean island of Samos said that they detained...

Agriculture Ministry's ATM targeted : Robbers broke into the Agricultural Development Ministry on Syngrou Avenue, police said...

Hospital pickpockets : Police in Thessaloniki said yesterday that they had arrested a 36-year-old man...

Copper load : Police in Kozani, northern Greece said yesterday that seven people had been arrested...

Hash haul : Two Albanian nationals yesterday faced a Ioannina prosecutor...

Soliciting arrests : Police in the Cretan prefecture of Hania yesterday arrested two municipal employees...

Checkmate : Children at a primary school in Thessaloniki have constructed what could be the world's biggest fabric chess set...


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President Karolos Papoulias...
EDITORIAL

Collective responsibility It is common knowledge that failure to reform the social security system will lead the country into a major crisis. Analysts disagree on just when that will happen (some say 10 years from now, others 15), but everyone agrees that time is running out. The Socialist opposition never tires of hammering home the seriousness of the problem. PASOK officials describe the coming nightmare in the most dramatic terms.

COMMENTARY

Crime by majority vote An exhortation by European Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas that Greeks should vote in October's local elections for mayors who have «worked for the environment» may be correct, but it is also outrageously utopian. It is right in a formal sense because it shows that the heart of the country's environmental problems lies in local government and the way it operates.

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