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Pension plans supported Bank of Greece calls for insurance changes to ensure funding as of 2015 In a sign of support of government plans to overhaul the country's social security system, the Bank of Greece (BoG) said yesterday radical changes are needed to maintain funding of the pension system as of 2015.

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Bishops argue; doctors warned

Archbishop Christodoulos's illness continued to divide the Church of Greece's Holy Synod...

Mayor steps up flood measures

Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis called on the government yesterday to help clean up the city's storm drains...

Five charged for child porn

Five Greek men from Athens, Patras, Theassaloniki and Drama have been charged with being part...

Increase in burglaries, bank raids

The country has seen a significant increase in burglaries and bank robberies, according to police figures...

The water in the irrigation canal...

The water in the irrigation canal of the Thessaly Plain at Asmaki, pictured...

Con man crash leads to lengthy sentence

A financial adviser who had been on the run from Greek authorities for 12 years but was arrested...

IN BRIEF

Court approves creation of new dump in Keratea despite protests : The Council of State, the country's highest administrative court, gave...

Skandalidis calls on leadership rivals to stop attacking each other : PASOK leadership candidate Costas Skandalidis yesterday called on...

Five traders fined 148,000 euros : Piraeus prefecture imposed yesterday fines of 148,000 euros...

Exarchia rampage : A gang of youths went on a rampage in Exarchia, central Athens...

Street violence : A Senegalese street trader yesterday suffered minor injuries...

Missing boy : British police yesterday released an updated digital picture of Ben Needham...

Embezzler convicted : A Thessaloniki court yesterday passed down an eight-year jail sentence...

Palaiocostas : A Larissa court yesterday passed down a nine-year jail sentence...

Billboard probe : A Thessaloniki magistrate yesterday ordered an investigation into the illegal placement...


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EDITORIAL

Forward planning The government's planning for the next three months is a welcome step that should remedy the impression of dysfunction it has given in the past. Good, forward planning is the foundation of success. The rest comes with good implementation. The former is the job of the prime minister; the latter is up to his ministers. The objectives that have been put forward must be quickly implemented within the time frames set by the ministers themselves.

COMMENTARY

Born-again socialists One of the most interesting phenomena in present-day America is an explosion of born-again Christians. In Europe, we are seeing the blossoming of something different, of born-again socialists. A typical example is the German Social Democratic Party (SDP). After its electoral defeat and loss of votes to the Lafontaine-Gysi «Left,» the new SDP president Kurt Beck heralded in the return of a Marxist analysis of society, a war against the offshoots of globalized capitalism...

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