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Boost for graduates System for recognizing foreign degrees to be made more efficient Proposals to cut the red tape confronting graduates who want to have their degrees from foreign universities recognized in Greece were presented by the Education Ministry yesterday.

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Flash sale of bank shares a great success

The sale yesterday of the state's last directly controlled stake in Greece's largest bank was hailed as a major success...

Key waste plant told to close

Citing a possible ecological disaster and the foul smell from the capital's main sewage treatment plant...

Major software pirates caught

A multimillion-euro software piracy ring has been broken following synchronized raids in Athens and London yesterday...

Ministry ponders new legalization

The Interior Ministry is considering a new legalization campaign for the estimated 300,000 illegal immigrants living in the country...

Acropolis museum promised for 2006

Greece's long-delayed project to build a new Acropolis Museum that might one day host the Elgin, or Parthenon, Marbles will be finished in two years' time at a cost of 129 million euros...

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Political leaders send condolences; FM to attend funeral in Cairo today : President Costis Stephanopoulos yesterday sent a message to the caretaker head of the Palestinian Authority...

Initial results show dairy products safe : The initial results of laboratory tests conducted on Dutch dairy products show that the products are absolutely safe...

Hospital strike : State hospitals across the country are operating on skeleton staff today...

Illegal immigrants : Border guards yesterday detained 89 and the 57-year-old Turk...

Foreign policy : Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis yesterday briefed the leaders of political parties...

Papaligouras : Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras's putting pressure on Supreme Court prosecutor...

Killer remanded : A 37-year-old man from the former Soviet Union was yesterday remanded...

Sports committee : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis wrote to Parliament Speaker Anna Psarouda-Benaki yesterday...


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EDITORIAL

Migrants in Greece The meeting of European Union interior ministers at Groeningen in the Netherlands to hammer out common principles for the integration of migrants has touched on a painful subject for the host country.

COMMENTARY

Arafat’s legacy Yesterday, Yasser Arafat passed into history. His eventful political career had stirred up the international status quo and of course the Middle East, as did other figures in the region such as Gamal Abdel-Nasser of Egypt, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran and Saddam Hussein of Iraq. The United States and Israel are optimistic that the death of Arafat will improve conditions for a solution to the Palestinian problem, but the opposite could very well occur. The legacy of Arafat is partly responsible for the radicalization not only of the Palestinians...

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