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Greece, Japan sign accord for closer ties PMs discuss trade, culture, tourism Prime Minister Costas Simitis and his Japanese counterpart, Junichiro Koizumi, yesterday signed a Japan-Greece Joint Action Plan which calls for periodic bilateral high-level meetings, the tightening of ties between the two countries, and the organizing of a «Japan month» in Greece and a «Greek month» in Japan.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Pension reform reborn

A year after presenting its original proposals for social security reform, which provoked a storm of public protests that led to the government's paralysis, an early party congress and a Cabinet reshuffle, government officials and labor leaders will sit down again...

Navy promotions storm still blowing

Three days after Vice Admiral Georgios Theodoroulakis resigned his top navy job in a storm over alleged government interference in senior promotions, his successor yesterday tacitly backed the outgoing navy chief of staff.

Cultural Olympiad gets chief

Abandoning the government's previous practice of appointing leading cultural figures - who kept resigning - to head Greece's ambitious «Cultural Olympiad» project, Culture Minister Evangelos Venizelos yesterday gave the job to one of his closest aides.

382 million euros for Gypsy welfare

Responding to criticism on Sunday by opposition leader Costas Karamanlis that it was doing nothing to better the lot of Greece's Gypsies, the government said yesterday it would spend nearly 382 million euros on Gypsy housing and education by 2008.

Austria pays WWII forced laborers

Austria will pay the first five of over 100 Greek citizens who have been granted compensation for their employment under forced or slave labor terms in the country during World War II, during a ceremony in Athens next week.

IN BRIEF

Today’s protest rally in capital will be largest yet, union says : Hundreds of farmers from all across the country could provoke traffic chaos in central Athens...

Court publishes decision in favor of 2004 venue : Appeals by four archaeological, environmental and heritage groups against the construction...

Olympic workers’ strike ruled illegal Olympic Airways (OA) flights will go ahead as scheduled today after two three-hour...

University strike. Athens University professors, who begin a scheduled 48-hour strike today...

Media strike. Radio and TV stations will not be broadcasting news bulletins tomorrow...

Khatami visit. Iranian President Mohammed Khatami will carry out an official visit to Greece next Tuesday...

FYROM. Greece and Russia yesterday condemned ‘terrorism’ in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

Hash haul. Border police near the northern town of Kastoria yesterday arrested a group of seven Albanian nationals...

Animal hospital? A state hospital in the northern town of Kavala yesterday appealed to legal and municipal authorities...

Doctors charged. Three Greek doctors and two nurses have been charged with homicidal negligence...


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EDITORIAL

Social security Labor Minister Dimitris Reppas's invitation to all parties concerned to participate in the official start of dialogue on social security, and the announcement that the initial meetings will take place today justify some hope that this major issue has again become a government priority after a long period of inertia.

COMMENTARY

The publicity machine Those who should be the most concerned about the cancerous growth of the so-called «reality shows» on television are precisely those who have profited so far from fame - the big names of the screen and of show business in general. By now, they should have realized that «Big Brother» and «Bar» and all such others that engage in the covert sport of peering through keyholes are undermining the reign of the big names.

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