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Greece steps up reactions over FYROM Presents Skopje with EU veto threat Greece stepped up its criticism of the United States yesterday for its decision to recognize the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia by the name Athens has for years fought to block.

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Athens hands EU rundown on deficit

Greece offered new, detailed assurances to the European Commission yesterday that it can meet its target of reducing its bloated public debt to acceptable levels next year.

Schoolteacher exams to change

Aspiring schoolteachers will have to wait until February to sit state examinations for teaching posts that had been due to take place this year...

New bid to smarten up Pireos St

Yet another government bid to prettify one of the capital's least glamorous thoroughfares through new zoning rules, building restrictions and extensive plantings was announced yesterday.

Parliament gets doping report

The most politically sensitive section of the judicial investigation into the doping scandal involving Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou was forwarded to Parliament yesterday...

Athens gets network of local CID bureaus

A string of new Criminal Investigations Department bureaus are to open in suburban and outlying areas of Athens next week, as a police plan to decentralize and boost crime-fighting swings into full operation.

IN BRIEF

Marathon and 10k run to cause problems in Athens tomorrow : There will be strict traffic restrictions in central Athens from 8.30 a.m. until 2.30 p.m. tomorrow...

Russian, Greek and Bulgarian delegates initial deal in step forward : A memorandum of cooperation for the long-delayed project to build an oil pipeline...

Mushroom victims : A 13-year-old Albanian boy, who was poisoned after eating wild mushrooms...

Aegean violations : Six formations of Turkish fighter jets yesterday violated Greek national air space...

Rubbish : The capital's only landfill in the district of Ano Liosia was yesterday operating as normal...

Dioxin tests : Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) officials were yesterday conducting tests on Dutch milk...

Doctors strike : Doctors at Athens's Attiko hospital are to begin a series of daily two-hour work stoppages...

Illegal antiquities : An elderly Cretan man yesterday faced an Iraklion prosecutor on charges...


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EDITORIAL

Change, urgently The US government's inelegant unilateral recognition of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) by the name of «Macedonia» and its probable consequences indicate that the Greek government must conduct another audit: not of the economy this time, but of foreign policy.

COMMENTARY

Get used to this America If there was any hope that a second term would lead President George W. Bush to act in a less unilateral way than before, Washington's surprise recognition of the «Republic of Macedonia» on Thursday, trampling on Greece's sensitivities, showed clearly that the United States is not going to waste time with diplomatic niceties. The message to Greece and the European Union was clear: Get used to living with this America. There was no doubt that September 11, 2001 would change the United States and the way it acted in the world. Iraq showed that American reaction had developed into unilateral action...

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