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Pay incentives aim to get civil service working Government tries to undo damage of first PASOK term by tying qualifications and effort with salary In an attempt to repair the damage caused by the first PASOK government in the early 1980s, the Naational Economy Ministry proposes to radically overhaul the public sector pay scale by linking civil servants' salaries to their education, performance and abilities.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Athenians passing by the junction of Alexandras Avenue...

Athenians passing by the junction of central Alexandras Avenue with Patission Street were surprised to see a fountain running with foam on Saturday.

Cem undercuts Nicosia talks with letter to EU

Foreign Minister George Papandreou met with Secretary of State Colin Powell in Salt Lake City, at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics, over the weekend and with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

No refugees left on Cyprus: Denktash

The Cypriot government expressed outrage on Saturday at a statement by Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash who said that there were no refugees on the island, following the 1974 invasion by Turkey.

PM’s walk helps save pine forest

A midday walk by Prime Minister Costas Simitis on the slopes of Mount Geranion near Corinth yesterday may have helped save the lush pine forest from going up in smoke: His report that a fire had broken out was met by an immediate and massive response.

Deal on SE Europe crime database

Southeastern Europe is to acquire an electronic database containing information on the worst criminals in the area, regional police officials meeting in Thessaloniki over the weekend agreed yesterday.

Former Agrex official is sent back to prison

The former London head of a scandal-ridden state company for the promotion of Greek agricultural products will return to prison to complete a 6-year embezzlement sentence, following a Supreme Court decision made public yesterday.

IN BRIEF

Street sweeper dives into Salonica Bay, saves driver : Street sweeper Nikos Toulis dived into action early yesterday morning when he saw a car fall into the sea...

President’s popularity soars An allegation that President Costis Stephanopoulos had rented property in Patras to a businessman who used it...

Guilty prefect. The prefect of Lesvos, Dimitris Vounatsos, has been found guilty firing a pistol into the air during a visit to Lemnos...

THIS WEEK

MONDAY Attica taxi drivers stage a 24-hour strike for higher fares and the right to drive in bus lanes. It begins at 5 a.m. today.

TUESDAY Foreign Minister George Papandreou travels to Istanbul to attend a meeting of EU foreign ministers...

WEDNESDAY Farmers of central and northern Greece meet in Larissa today to decide on further protest action...

THURSDAY The Government Council on Defense and Foreign Policy (KYSEA) meets.

FRIDAY Deadline for Integrated Airline Solutions Consortium (IAS) to finalize its offer for a stake in Olympic Airways.

SATURDAY Secondary school teachers’ representatives to meet to discuss further strike action. They are demanding a 25-percent pay increase...


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A column of tractors rolls homeward... A column of tractors rolls homeward on the national road from Athens to Thessaloniki yesterday, following Saturday's decision by Thessalian farmers to call off a two-week protest campaign...

COMMENTARY

Fighting corruption Prime Minister Costas Simitis is finally confronting the economic and political repercussions of his government's policies, which are often amateurish but always arrogant. These policies have been advertised as a model and as «the expression of the new entrepreneurial spirit,» yet they go directly against the basic principles of esthetics and decent social and economic behavior.

EDITORIAL

The caravan will move on For most of the 20th century, the country's civic life was determined by the right-left split, a conflict that the traditional parties saw as a direct reflection of the social antagonism between big interests and the less prosperous strata of society. The wind of the radical global changes since the late 1980s swept aside these vertical, and largely artificial, dividing lines only to replace them with other horizontal, but no less tense ones.

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