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Gasoline trickling in Truck drivers’ union to decide today whether to extend strike Gasoline supplies slowly started to reach outlets across the country yesterday as striking truck drivers are due to meet this morning to decide whether they will extend their eight-day protest.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Poll spells trouble for the big two

If general elections were held today, no party would win enough votes to form a government...

Clean air drive targets dirty cars

A new plan for curbing air pollution, announced yesterday by Public Works and Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias...

Friction with Ankara, Skopje

Athens yesterday complained to Ankara over statements posted...

Greeks get older as births slow

Greece's population is steadily getting older with one in three Greeks expected to be over the age of 65 by 2050...

53rd Eurovision Song Contest...

Kalomoira Sarantis, a Greek-American pop singer...

Bear is collared on Egnatia Highway

Conservationists yesterday placed a tracking collar around the neck of a young brown bear...

IN BRIEF

Greece offers to send experts to help with search for survivors in Sichuan : Greece yesterday offered to send experts to China...

Minister threatens to cut funds for universities over four-year plans : Universities will have their funding cut...

Green light expected on Thursday : An interministerial committee is expected to meet on Thursday...

Flight disruptions : Several Olympic Airlines domestic flights were canceled or delayed...

Archaeological sites : Greece's will be closed on Sunday...

Oil checks : More shipments of imported sunflower oil are being examined...

Doping probe : Two more people linked to the doping scandal...

Coal protests : Residents of two villages near Kozani...


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Strike by cabbies... Taxis lined up in central Athens yesterday during a 24-hour strike...

EDITORIAL

Time to liberalize road haulage Tanker truck drivers are not just blackmailing society; they are breaking the law. They are not just striking - as is their right - but are using force to block the transportation of gasoline and other products by privately hired vehicles. What's worse is that the state is not only tolerating it, but tacitly inciting it too. The road haulage sector is closed and tightly knit, which is why the state will not allow free competition.

COMMENTARY

The mirror never lies It was a Greek who urged other Greeks to «come to your senses» when hundreds (either spontaneously or stirred into a panic by TV, as always) lined up at gas stations to fill their tanks and even a jerry can or two. The tone of the speaker was disparaging, so much so that he himself would probably have been insulted if addressed in similar manner. In fact he would probably have responded in kind and soon words would give way to violence, to settle differences that probably didn't even exist in the first place, for it's a whole lot more than a tank of gas that separates people.

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