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OA to keep its wings? Government says air carrier will keep flying regardless of EU decision With a vital European Union decision on Olympic Airlines' (OA) future expected tomorrow, the government said yesterday that the national air carrier will continue to fly regardless of whether Brussels rules the company has received illegal funding.

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Ultra-right meet plan raises fear of violence

Days after the government said it would ban a meeting of European far-right groups that is planned to take place in Greece at the end of the week, campaigners said yesterday that they would take action to stop the event amid growing fears that extremists will go ahead with the gathering and that violence could follow.

One in four school buses fails early test

Almost one in four buses transporting schoolchildren in Athens was found to have breached transport safety regulations as the government conducted random tests on the first day of the school year yesterday.

Loo run raises terrorist alarm

Two Pakistani nationals found themselves at the center of suspicion late Sunday night after their flight from Cyprus to Britain was grounded...

Greeks love to snipe at red tape

Greece's Ombudsman revealed yesterday that, among Europeans, Greeks are among the quickest to complain about the service they receive from public bodies...

IN BRIEF

Government launches drive to cut use of electricity in Greek households : The Development Ministry launched an advertising campaign yesterday...

Local authorities to go on the alert : The General Secretary for Consumers Thanassis Skordas sent a circular yesterday...

Seikh-Sou : A fire that broke out in Forest on the outskirts of Thessaloniki...

Iraklion fire : Firefighters managed to put out a blaze that had broken out yesterday...

Leda Tassopoulou : Theater actress died yesterday at the age of 52...

Deadly fight : A 25-year-old Pakistani national was found dead in Aspropyrgos...

Larnaca synagogue : Cyprus's Jewish community inaugurated the island's first synagogue yesterday...

Chios migrants : Coast guards on Chios picked up 19 illegal immigrants on a rocky outcrop...

Televisions stolen : Four armed men held up a parked truck containing televisions in Mandra...


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Two schoolchildren return...
EDITORIAL

Shaking up the Greek civil service Greece's head of government has taken on a big gamble. Braving the political cost, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis decided to break with longstanding tradition whereby governments treated the Thessaloniki International Fair as a platform from which to announce handouts and social benefits drawing on funds that did not really exist in the first place; «borrowed» is the word.

COMMENTARY

Back to the drawing board Their schoolbags stuffed with books, children across the country returned to the classroom yesterday. The younger ones believe they have more to learn from TV than from school; their older schoolmates feel the same about their cramming schools. Braving the orthopedics' warnings, pupils showed up at schools overburdened with textbooks. Well, not quite. Many have not received their books, or at least not all of them.

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