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NATO chief gives Greece a hand with FYROM issue Alliance head urges a Skopje move; Athens reasserts its right to veto NATO's secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, yesterday buoyed diplomats in Athens by emphasizing the importance of Greece as an established member of the alliance and calling on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to take a more constructive stance in efforts to resolve the Macedonia name dispute.

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Minister declines to bend rules

The government will not allow universities to cut corners and will apply recently adopted reforms...

Support for cohabitation law

Academics and unmarried couples yesterday backed the government's plans to introduce a cohabitation law in Greece...

Hopes rise for burnt Olympia

Work to regenerate the site around Ancient Olympia, charred in last summer's fires, is virtually complete...

Extremists behind failed blast

A leftist group calling itself Armed Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for a botched bomb attack...

Driver shot dead in ‘road rage’ attack

An argument between a motorcyclist and a motorist near central Athens yesterday afternoon ended with the car driver being shot dead...

IN BRIEF

Ex-minister critical but stable following a second amputation : Former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou yesterday underwent surgery...

New head of force calls on officers to be more active in tackling crime : The new chief of the Greek Police (ELAS)...

Fraud convict out on health grounds : The former rector of Panteion University, Emilios Metaxopoulos, who was sentenced to 25 years...

Lucrative hit : Three robbers made off with more than 300,000 euros yesterday morning...

Information on the go : The City of Athens yesterday started operating a van...

Rubbish strike : Municipality workers will launch a 24-hour strike on Friday...

Kosovo's impact : Kosovo's declaration of independence is a violation of international law...

Deadly intruder : Police in Athens were yesterday investigating the murder of a 64-year-old woman found dead...

Builder falls : A 60-year-old man died yesterday after falling from the third floor of a building...


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EDITORIAL

Mature markets, immature unions For four hours yesterday, Greece turned into Albania at the time of Enver Hoxha: It disappeared off the world's financial map. Striking employees at the Bank of Greece, in a surprise takeover of the computer records department at Holargos, barred entry to everyone, including emergency staff.

COMMENTARY

Just another national disaster In the Public Issue poll published by Kathimerini last Sunday, only 24 percent of respondents said that recognition of Greece's neighbor as «Macedonia» would be a «national catastrophe,» 10 percent said the issue was of no concern to them and 40 percent responded that recognizing the country as «Macedonia» is a «necessary evil.»

OPINION

The debasement of public discourse Nothing is strange about the fact that a handful of people spread gossip and rumor via the press-gr blog. What is strange is how many people took this blog seriously. There are good blogs and bad blogs all over the world, but Greece is the only country where these are thrown into the same pot and where a blog can become a subject for debate in Parliament.

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