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Gov’t pushes for consensus PM says cooperation only way of tackling crisis ahead of talks with opposition party leaders today Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday stressed that political consensus was crucial in the face of «a complex and major financial crisis» as opposition parties slammed the government's economic policies on the eve of scheduled talks between the premier and party leaders.

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Hospital doctors call off strikes

Hospital doctors yesterday decided to accept the provisions of a health bill voted through Parliament last week, calling off a series of rolling strikes...

Minister raps education reform

As Education Minister Aris Spiliotopoulos heralded the launch of a debate on the secondary education system next week, a deputy minister who is also the former dean...

Rightists claim Ohrid attack

A nationalist organization in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) yesterday claimed responsibility for an attack on five busloads of Greek tourists...

High pollution levels in Volos tied to illness

Air pollution is rising at the busy port of Volos in central Greece, according to measurements taken by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki...

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Gas canister blast at bank in Neo Psychico wreaks damage : Arsonists caused serious damage to a branch of Piraeus Bank in the affluent northern suburb of Neo Psychico...

Three got lost in mountains : Three would-be illegal immigrants from Albania were found unharmed yesterday...

ISAP disruptions : Services on the Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway (ISAP) will be disrupted...

Worksite targeted : A group of youngsters hurled Molotov cocktail bombs at a construction site in the central Athens...

Emergency landing : A firefighting plane was forced to carry out an in the sea off the southern coast of Evia...

Drug haul : Police in Kozani, northern Greece, yesterday were questioning a 19-year-old Albanian...

Soccer shock : Panathinaikos was the victim of the year's biggest upset in soccer's Greek Cup...


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Piraeus dockworkers air concerns in Athens Dockworkers march through a sunny city center yesterday, protesting against the privatization...

EDITORIAL

Police force in need of a facelift The wave of successive crises that has hit the Greek Police (ELAS) has regrettably shown us that the political leadership has failed to fully grasp the extent of the problem that has arisen in this country's public order sector. We have indeed seen a number of top-quality policemen assigned to key official positions. In other posts, however, all we have seen is the lukewarm recycling of officers who have some level of responsibility for the widespread riots of last December or people who have been hanging on to important posts for years and doing very little.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

When inmates take over the asylum The concept of «university asylum» must have seemed like a good idea back in 1982, when the newly elected Socialist government of Andreas Papandreou wanted Greece to be the springboard for a Latin American-type liberation movement in Europe. PASOK was elected in 1981, seven years after the collapse of an extreme right-wing military dictatorship and eight years after a student uprising whose immediate consequences were a coup by even more rabid right-wingers.

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