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PM defiant on universities Karamanlis claims public support for reforms as protests are stepped up The prime minister showed no sign yesterday of giving in to continuing protests against his government's university reforms bill as he insisted that the ruling conservatives had a popular mandate to see the changes through.

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Albania protests soldiers’ video

The Defense Ministry yesterday «unequivocally» condemned a video showing Greek soldiers chanting anti-Albanian songs after its broadcast provoked...

History book divides opinion

Controversy mounted yesterday over a history textbook for 12-year-olds, which critics accuse of glossing over the hardships...

Warming concerns Greeks

Seven out of 10 Greeks are «very worried» about global warming and climate change, one of the highest rates in the European Union...

Will prompts fatal dispute

An 87-year-old man died in a Thessaloniki hospital yesterday hours after shooting...

Schoolboy soccer ‘hooligans’ let off

Two boys, aged 10 and 11, who were among seven soccer fans arrested...

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Burgas-Alexandroupolis deal delayed until next week for Putin arrival : Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Bulgarian counterpart Georgi Parvanov are expected...

Elderly woman and son arrested : An 85-year-old woman and her 50-year-old son were arrested in Athens yesterday...

Military service : Government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos admitted yesterday that the possibility of conscripts being forced...

ATM scam : Police said yesterday that they had arrested two men outside a bank in Maroussi, northern Athens...

Pedal power : The Athens Metro Company (AMEL) said yesterday that it will decide by March 21 whether to change its rules...

Serial robber : A 30-year-old man has been charged with carrying out 33 robberies in Elefsina, west of Athens, police said...

TODAY : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to meet with Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis at 9.45 a.m...


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Method undermines even a noble protest At a time of global economic restructuring, farmers are entitled to protest because the threat is real. Market conditions are changing rapidly, newer and cheaper producers are getting into the game and the European Union's policy of subsidies is ending. But whatever rights the farmers have, they then lose through the type of mobilization they choose. Blocking the national road at Tempe does not solve their problems, and it creates additional difficulties for the national economy and the public.

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Not another ‘milestone’ PASOK leader George Papandreou's «two-in-one» speech last Sunday was a strange choice to make in front of an audience of party members that had cheered Kimon Koulouris, recently ousted from the party's parliamentary group.

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