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Greek joy over terms for Turkey EU progress report calls on Ankara to repeal threat of war and to open ports to Cypriot ships Athens declared itself «very satisfied» yesterday with the European Union progress reports which set the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the road to membership and set out some tough guidelines for Turkey to follow in its own accession process.

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Police stuck on cushy jobs

Law enforcement authorities asked the government yesterday to take police officers out of comfortable office jobs so more of them can patrol the streets and improve community safety.

MP drawn into judge scandal

Investigating judges may move to lift the immunity from prosecution of a serving MP as part of their probe...

Three dead in factory feud

A security guard at a plastics factory in the northern town of Kilkis yesterday shot dead a foreman and his boss...

Strike to freeze gov’t services

Flights will be grounded, schools will be shut and hospitals will only accept emergency cases...

Drug baron in court for 5-ton cocaine haul

An Athens court heard yesterday that police had been on the trail of Alexandros Angelopoulos since 1999...

IN BRIEF

Clashes as former PM unveils book about his eight years in power : Scuffles broke out late yesterday between riot police...

Gov't will decide by next week if privatization is to go ahead : The government is to decide next week, after ongoing consultations...

Three MPs to face prosecution : Three MPs had their immunity from prosecution lifted yesterday...

Rotten food : Two tons of frozen pastries and pizzas, which were unfit...

Ban lifted : Bulgaria yesterday lifted a ban it had imposed on...

Weapons cache : Investigations at the home of a man who was shot at least 20 times...

Election bill : The government unveiled a new bill yesterday which, if passed...

Publisher released : An Athens appeals court yesterday decided to release...

Steep fines : Drivers who park their cars in front of building ramps...


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EDITORIAL

Glimpses of an efficient state The challenge of bringing the country's civil service into the 21st century is the aim of of a government program called «Syzeuxis,» which has been progressing at such a good pace that those at the Interior Ministry are actually optimistic. The program «can effectively fight bureaucracy and transform the civil service from a dynast into the citizen's servant,» Interior and...

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Risky imported notions The positive side of the violent disturbances that have broken out in the suburbs of numerous French cities is that the European Union must collectively face the issue of economic migrants. The events in France and, to a lesser extent, other European countries show that the attempt to reduce labor costs encouraging migrants to come to Europe...

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