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Union chief urges social security talks Warns IKA faces serious trouble

After warning that, in 20 years, Greece's main social security fund would be in serious trouble unless action was taken, the head of the country's largest umbrella union took the surprise step yesterday of calling for employers and workers to start talking about reforms to the system.
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Aegean military hotline
As Greek and Turkish fighter pilots jousted over the Aegean, the countries' foreign ministers agreed in Ankara yesterday...
EC raises a stink over dump
The European Commission yesterday moved towards taking Greece to court over its failure to clean up...
FYROM rejects name proposal
Following a briefing by United Nations officials late on Monday, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia yesterday rejected a UN deal...
Pipeline deal signed in Bulgaria
After talking for 13 years about building a pipeline to carry Russian oil through Bulgaria to northern Greece...
EU finance ministers call off deficit action
LUXEMBOURG (AFP) - EU finance ministers called off excessive deficit procedures against Greece yesterday after deciding that Athens has taken adequate measures to get its deficit...
IN BRIEF
Parliament begins ratification debate, ex-PM Simitis criticizes gov't policy : Parliament yesterday launched a debate to ratify the European Constitution...
Road to Peloponnese 'ready by 2010' : A new highway linking Corinth to the Peloponnesian towns...
Arson attack : Five cars and two scooters were destroyed in an early yesterday...
Publisher's trial : A prosecutor yesterday asked an Athens court to deliver guilty verdicts...
Omonia murder : Two gunmen burst into a taverna near Omonia, central Athens, early yesterday and fatally shot...
Trial-fixing probe : Theoklitos, Bishop of Thessaliotis - forced to resign at the end of February...
Easter hours : Traders yesterday announced the store hours for the Easter period...
Swede cleared : A court in Rhodes yesterday cleared 22-year-old Swede Calle Jonsson of the attempted murder...

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EDITORIAL
Defusing the time bomb
 Some compare it to a time bomb. Skeptics have their doubts - but only about the time part. The only sure thing is that Greece's social security system is in crisis. Funding from the state, employers and employees won't be able to sustain it for much longer. Drastic measures are needed. Without doubt, the government is faced with an extremely sensitive social issue.
COMMENTARY
Wild swings
 Which of the two was Iakovos? A CIA agent or a major national and religious leader? Both descriptions, however incompatible, have been used to profile the recently deceased former leader of the Orthodox Church in the Americas. The fact that the same people who once maligned Iakovos are now lauding his character and contribution to Greece does no credit to the late archbishop and compromises the politicians...
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