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Reshuffle and Ankara will have to wait PM: No trip or Cabinet changes in 2005 A Cabinet reshuffle and an historic visit to Turkey will not take place this year, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said on Saturday, in an attempt to end recent speculation about both political tasks facing him.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Plan to fight bird flu in place

Hotels will be converted into medical clinics and trainee doctors and nurses will be enlisted to help treat millions of patients if there is a bird flu outbreak in Greece, according to government plans seen by Sunday's Kathimerini.

Mushroom boy battles for life

A young boy was flown yesterday from Thessaloniki to Italy in a military transport plane so he could undergo emergency surgery to have his liver replaced after falling critically ill from eating poisonous mushrooms.

Simitis gets more flak for book

Former prime minister Costas Simitis should not have released his memoirs so soon, says Gerasimos Arsenis, one of the ministers who served under him and who accused the ex-PASOK leader of exercising a policy of «benign neglect» in the face of corruption.

Protesters march in central Athens...

Protesters march in central Athens on Saturday in a demonstration, organized by the Communist-affiliated...

Early Greek writing unearthed on Crete

Archaeologists in Crete have found an important trove of archaeological treasures containing some of the earliest known examples of Greek writing, the Culture Ministry said Saturday. It said the finds were excavated at a long-abandoned site on a hill overlooking the port of Hania in western Crete, which has been identified with the Minoan city of Kydonia.

IN BRIEF

Youths demonstrate peacefully outside French Embassy in Athens : A group of some 100 youths protested outside the French Embassy...

Off-duty officer injures armed robber : An off-duty policeman shot and injured a robber...

Bank scam : Two men, aged 28 and 37, have been arrested in Thessaloniki...

Horse crash : A motorcycle rider was killed in Halkidiki...

Lucky dip : Two men managed to escape from a car after it plunged into...

Samos migrants : Authorities on Samos arrested 22 illegal immigrants in three locations...

Game boys : Police in Thessaloniki arrested seven cafe owners...

Taverna trick : Police arrested five people north of Athens in connection...


THIS WEEK

Monday : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis meets with the leader...

Wednesday : Hellenic Society of Hematology holds 16th Hematology Congress...

Thursday : Aristotle University of Thessaloniki holds...

Friday : Hellenic-American Union hosts seminar...

Saturday : Health Minister Nikitas Kaklamanis chairs inter-Balkan meeting...


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EDITORIAL

The integration of migrants in Greece The dramatic developments in France have caused widespread concern in the West and in Greece. How close is the connection between what sparked rage in French cities and what goes on in migrant communities in Greece? Are we at risk of an upheaval? The statistics and news reports do not present such a worrisome picture. Of course, the situation is far from ideal: Migrants have considerable difficulties and racism has not disappeared. Despite the outrageous indifference...

COMMENTARY

Dark shadow over Turkey Turkey's prospects of joining the European Union were built upon the rationale that Europe needs to cease being a Christian club that has enshrined the principles of the Greek-Roman civilization and the Enlightenment, and to incorporate a people with different, Islamic cultural traditions into a broad secular entity. A number of people, notably British PM Tony Blair, promote such developments which would benefit the international system as it would demolish the barrier between Christians and members of other creeds, lending the EU a multifaith, multicultural dimension.

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