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Premier rallies party, urges team spirit Ministers told to keep ‘doors open’ Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday sought to rally New Democracy deputies after a difficult week that saw the ruling party's slender parliamentary majority threatened due to internal dissent following a series of scandals.

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Alogoskoufis tables bold budget plan

The government yesterday tabled in Parliament its 2009 draft budget, which foresees a slowdown in growth to 3 percent from this year's 3.4 percent...

CO2 accord was ‘verbal’

A Polish diplomat yesterday refuted reports that the Greek and Polish environment ministers had co-signed an accord involving other European Union states...

Graffiti hits Athens monuments

The authorities call it a Greek tragedy, but the graffiti artists who have increasingly left their mark on this ancient city and its monuments say they are simply responding...

Drowned immigrants wash up on seashore

The bodies of seven men, including a young teenager, have been found in the sea or washed up on shore near the northern port of Alexandroupolis...

IN BRIEF

Aircraft grounded tomorrow, public transport disruptions : Metro and railway services will be suspended tomorrow...

Diplomats return to New York : Diplomats from Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

Cyprus dialogue : Cypriot President Dimitrios Christofias said he remained «cautiously optimistic»...

New university : The country's 23rd university will be based in Agrinion...

Clean bill : Greece is no longer threatened with a fine from the European Commission...

Man killed : The body of an unidentified man was found on a street corner...

Not Animal Day : One of two dogs guarding an enclosed municipal area...

Climber rescued : A rescue team yesterday managed to locate a Bulgarian climber...


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EDITORIAL

Why yet another university? As the quality of the education received at the country's universities drops with each year that goes by, the government has decided upon a policy that was popular under opposition PASOK rule, which is scattering universities all over Greece. The government's announcement that it will be opening the country's 23rd university (without having first ensured the adequate operation of the other 22) came as a surprise because, when New Democracy was in opposition, it had rightly condemned such policies in no uncertain terms.

COMMENTARY

Talk is cheap Although the term «epicurean» has come to describe a person devoted to the pursuit of sensual pleasure, Epicurus was wise and moderate and condemned man's destructive passion for political climbing. He made a distinction between the discourse used in celebratory speeches and that used in the people's assembly and courtrooms. When people speak in the people's assembly, the ancient philosopher said, they put their reputation at stake.

You can’t bank on anything... People are getting very, very worried about the consequences of the financial crisis that is rocking the United States and which this week began to shake Europe. With the news of one bank after another being rescued by government intervention in the United States and Europe, Greeks are wondering what is happening to their banks and their deposits. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has repeatedly said that the crisis will not affect the Greek banking sector.

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