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No movement on FYROM EU, NATO push for Skopje compromise; UN envoy’s latest talks inconclusive Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday dug in his heels over the Macedonia name dispute, stressing that Athens will not hesitate to block Skopje from joining NATO unless the disagreement is resolved.

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Problems mount as strikes continue

The stock exchange in Athens was closed for a full second day yesterday and parts of Greece suffered blackouts...

PM picks up the pension baton

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis stepped to the forefront last night after his Cabinet approved planned pension reforms...

Fourth murder on city streets

A 43-year-old Lebanese national became the fourth person to be shot dead in Athens in the last four days...

Organs of car victim save four

The organs of a 20-year-old Cretan girl who had been on a life-support machine since last week following a car crash...

Sledgehammers used in police station attack

Around 20 masked youths attacked a municipal police station in the Athens district of Pangrati...

IN BRIEF

Greek PM and Cypriot president agree to exploit new chance : Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and visiting Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias...

Workers begin action; residents asked not to throw out trash : Residents in Athens and Greece's other big cities were asked...

Bullets, guns found in Athens bar : Police have arrested the manager of a bar in Psyrri...

Veria fire : The mayor of Veria, Hariclia Ousoultzoglou, said yesterday...

Rhodes shaken : Two earthquakes measuring 5.1 Richter each hit the Dodecanese island of Rhode...

Robbery suspect : Police said yesterday that they have arrested a 26-year-old man...

Meat seizures : Inspectors from the Prefecture of Piraeus seized more...

Violent intruder : An 88-year-old woman was hospitalized with serious injuries yesterday...

Migrants intercepted : Port Authority officials on Tuesday detained 95 would-be migrants...


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Social security system...
EDITORIAL

Turning over new social security leaf The government took the plunge - it decided to deal with the social security issue rather than bequeath it to the next generation and subsequent administrations. Despite the virulent reaction of a handful of groups, the «mild, modest and socially just» - as the prime minister called them - changes will go ahead. To tame the chaos of having 155 social security foundations...

COMMENTARY

The case for Upper Macedonia FYROM's efforts to usurp the historical legacy of the ancient Macedonians may have irked Greeks, but the main issue at hand is the geopolitical one. The modern-day region of Macedonia is multiethnic. It is not the homeland of just one nation and the ethnic groups that reside within it have the right to use the term Macedonia in an ethno-geographical sense (Greek Macedonians, Slav Macedonians, Bulgaro-Macedonians, and so on).

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