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Strikes and disruption set to intensify Power cuts continue and trash piles up as other groups join the protests Power cuts continued across Greece for a seventh day yesterday while garbage piled up on city streets as unions prepared more protests, including industrial action that will see public transport in Athens grind to a halt tomorrow.

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SYRIZA benefits from PASOK dip

Voters are deserting PASOK and flocking to the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), under the new leadership...

Protest over polluted gulf

Residents of towns and villages on the Amvrakikos Gulf, in western Greece, yesterday renewed their protests...

Cretan resort case to be heard

Hundreds of Cretan residents and environmentalists protesting plans for the construction of a huge tourism complex...

FYROM digs heels in on name

Skopje yesterday warned it would be «dangerous» for Athens to veto its NATO accession bid...

Drive to slim down expanding waistlines

More than half of Greek children are overweight, according to figures released yesterday by the Health Ministry...

IN BRIEF

Station master accepts blame for train derailment that injured 28 : The manager of Larissa railway station yesterday...

Flights from Athens delayed due to shortage of seasonal staff at airline : Hundreds of passengers suffered as several Olympic Airlines (OA) flights...

Second man injured in explosion : An explosion on board a cargo vessel at a shipyard in Halkida...

Busy burglars : Police in Attica have arrested a 30-year-old man who is thought to be a member...

Privacy chief : The honorary president of the Council of State, Christos Geraris, was named...

Drugs haul : Police in Giannitsa yesterday seized just over a kilo of heroin...

Car park fire : A fire that broke out yesterday lunchtime in an underground parking...

Illegal immigrants : The coast guard arrested 26 off the coast of Samos...

Jilted and angry : Police have launched a manhunt for a 20-year-old man in Lamia...


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EDITORIAL

Inflation alarm bells It is true that the skyrocketing prices of oil and cereals have pushed up the prices of products across the board and all around the world. What is strange, though, is that while inflation is running at 2.6 percent in the eurozone, in Greece it is up to 4.4 percent. The difference is attributed to the way Greek markets are organized into oligopolies and the fact that in Greece everything is protected - apart from free competition.

COMMENTARY

Less idle criticism Watching the transformation of certain politicians who have retired from the political front and air their views in social gatherings or occasionally even to newspapers can be very amusing. I hear, for example, many defenders of the Costas Simitis administration, among them close associates of the former premier, talking about the diffidence...

OPINION

It looks like we’re in for a bumpy ride There are those moments in history that ultimately prove to be historical. We may be going through one such time right now. Top ministers appear to be on a dangerous flight and their captain has just told them to fasten their seat belts as there is likely to be heavy turbulence ahead.

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