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Fires stir Greeks into extending a helping hand WWF says volunteers at record levels The recent string of destructive wildfires across Greece appear to have prompted a number of Greeks to take a more keen, and active, interest in the environment as the green organization WWF Greece indicated yesterday that there had been a 900 percent increase in people offering to help clean up and protect forests.

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Tens of thousands head off for summer vacations

As the holiday season moves toward its peak period, seats on flights and ferries leaving Athens are nearly fully booked with tens of thousands of people abandoning the capital on a daily basis.

Schinias park lacks protection

Poor supervision of a national seaside park in Schinias, northeast of Athens, has put the natural environment at risk as the relevant authorities have turned a blind eye to businesses and campers taking over the area, according to the park's management.

No charges for driving in Athens

Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis said that he wants the final say on whether charging for congestion will be introduced in the capital, while making it clear that he is against the idea of charging drivers to enter the city center during rush hour.

Draw pits AEK against Sevilla

AEK Athens was handed one of the toughest draws in the Champions League third qualifying round yesterday, as it will have to face Sevilla, the Spanish side that won the UEFA Cup for the last two years and finished third in last season's Spanish league.

Alert after passenger boards wrong flight

An investigation has been launched into how a young Bulgarian man boarded the wrong flight at Athens International Airport and was eventually discovered by passengers rather than security or airline staff.

IN BRIEF

Heavy toll in two separate car accidents in northern Greece : Seven people were killed in two separate car accidents in Kilkis and Kavala, northern Greece, yesterday...

Coast guard rescues 27 people off Samos in rough conditions at sea : The coast guard rescued 27 illegal immigrants off the eastern Aegean island of Samos yesterday...

Court rules in favor of project : The Council of State has thrown out an appeal from organizations opposed to the diversion of the Acheloos River...

Gaza evacuation : Four people holding Greek passports have been safely evacuated from the Gaza Strip...

Decision defended : The rector of the University of Crete, Ioannis Pallikaris, defended yesterday the university's recent decision to allow police access to the campus...

Kifissos return : Skai Radio and TV said yesterday that they are intending to team up again with the Karcher cleaning company to clean up rubbish...

Poseidonos roadwork : The Public Works and Environment Ministry warned drivers yesterday that roadwork will begin tomorrow on the Poseidonos Avenue flyover...

Heroin arrest : Police arrested a 32-year-old man in Thessaloniki yesterday for possessing 1.1 kilos of heroin...

Armed robbery : An armed man held up a branch of Eurobank in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki, yesterday and made away with an unknown amount of cash...


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EDITORIAL

Hope rises from the ashes of ruin Hope rises from the ashes of catastrophe. Civil society is turning the page by taking protest action a step further. Civil society groups are no longer just pointing a finger at the shortcomings of the state apparatus but have actually started efforts to amend for them. The sharp rise in the number of volunteers who join organizations for the protection of the environment marks a qualitative shift in Greek society. It shows that the number of people who are asking what the country can do for them is in decline.

COMMENTARY

Winning a second term Umberto Eco famously said that «there is no news in August.» But this conviction expressed by the great Italian writer should be defeated in Greece this summer - in fact, with a loud bang. Indeed, it seems to me that this August will be different from all previous ones. By the end of the month, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will ask Karolos Papoulias, the president of the Republic, to dissolve Parliament and call general elections in late September. Papoulias will most probably give the green light and the informal campaign period will enter a fiercely contested final round.

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