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Nimetz proposal offers hope Republic of Northern Macedonia is ‘good basis for talks,’ says Athens, but ‘improvements needed’ Athens yesterday welcomed as «a very good basis for negotiations» a much-awaited proposal by the United Nations mediator in the Macedonia name dispute, Matthew Nimetz.

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Strike brings capital to a halt as workers oppose sell-off plans

Traffic ground to a halt in the city center and flights were canceled at Athens International Airport yesterday...

Elders in Cyprus peace push

NICOSIA (AFP) - Nobel peace laureates former US President Jimmy Carter and anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu arrived...

Locals protest ‘lagoon threat’

A decision by the Environment and Public Works Ministry to declare the area around Lake Vistonida, in northern Greece, a protected zone...

Athens police accused of beating migrant

A rights group yesterday lodged a complaint against a central Athens police station where an Afghan immigrant...

IN BRIEF

Suspected drug dealer fatally injured in police shootout : A high-speed car chase in central Greece last night...

PM's letter seals ND's majority : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis has reinstated a rebel New Democracy MP...

Neighborly relations : An unidentified 38-year-old man was shot in the shoulder by a neighbor...

School bus accident : Nine children were taken to the hospital for observation...

Sit-ins : Pupils in some 20 state senior high schools in Attica...

Cabbie classes : Taxi drivers and owners in Hania, Crete, are to be given training seminars...

Parking space : The capital has acquired a new, three-story underground parking garage ...

Daylight robbery : Armed robbers netted a total of 24,269 euros in two raids within half an hour...


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EDITORIAL

Please, no surprises this time Budgets are prepared and put to a vote in order to be enacted. Their purpose is not to formally express the optimism or pessimism of the government's economic team prevailing at the time. They become the law of the land and laws must be fully enforced. The budget that is in force this year was characterized by overly optimistic assessments of the course of revenues, assessments that were disproved in the middle of the year, leading the government to adopt emergency tax measures.

COMMENTARY

Red lines fading The latest proposal by United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz should be judged on the basis of a single criterion: Does it negate the Slav-Macedonians' effort to monopolize the Macedonian identity and legitimize a claim to the whole of Macedonia? The proposed «Republic of Northern Macedonia» is a compound name with a geographical determinant. As opposed to Upper Macedonia, however, it has the serious drawback of semiotically referring to a dismembered homeland, along the lines of Korea, or as Vietnam was.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

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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