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Reform tweak in effort to pacify strikers Unions keep up opposition to changes; trains off tracks today The conservative government is considering making some minor modifications to its social security reforms as a means of winning over opponents to the controversial changes as worker strike action picks up again today.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Fresh name talks later this month

The United Nations mediator entrusted with solving the Macedonia name dispute is to meet with diplomats...

PASOK faces crucial conference

PASOK leader George Papandreou is set to deliver one of his most important speeches at the start of his party's eighth conference today...

IKA murder trial begins

The man accused of killing Yiannis Vartholomaios, the former head of the Social Security Foundation (IKA)...

Cyprus set for dialogue next week

The new Cyprus president, Dimitris Christofias, is to meet with Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in Nicosia...

Ex-officer charged with detaining illegals

A former police officer was arrested in Athens for allegedly charging illegal immigrants from Algeria between 3 and 5 euros a day...

IN BRIEF

Justice minister and archbishop to discuss controversial legislation : Justice Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis is due to meet today...

Skull of patient from 3rd century found during dig in northern Greece : Archaeologists in northern Greece said yesterday...

Athens third-grimiest city in EU? : Athens is the third-dirtiest city in Europe...

Brave teller : Two armed robbers left empty-handed from a branch of Alpha Bank...

Cancer tests : All citizens of Attica aged between 55 and 70 can this month...

Waning libidos : Many women visiting sexual and psychological counselors...

Rescue operation : Coast guard vessels were yesterday scouring the Thermaic Gulf...


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‘Suite 347’...
EDITORIAL

Adjustments, not compromise The government is doing what it must to try to put the social security system in order. It would be a big mistake if between now and March 20, when the bill is to be voted on in Parliament, it were to back down under pressure from various guilds. The government must certainly clear up mistakes and vague points, but under no circumstances should it allow itself to be pulled into a vicious cycle of compromise that will ultimately undermine the entire endeavor.

COMMENTARY

Striking the right way There is nothing new here: When mass mobilization stirs up society, governments try to turn it against the workers, knowing that hardship in daily life creates discontent. Here, then, is the paradox: While everyone claims to believe in the right to protest, they are effectively asking that it be annulled.

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