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ND bracing for defeat Top government officials try to prepare ground for loss in European poll An imminent defeat for the government in the June 7 European Parliament elections may be looming but the ruling conservatives yesterday tried to play down the implications any loss would have.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

FM to visit Ankara for talks by end of July

Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis is to conduct an official visit to Ankara over the next two months for her first two-way talks with her Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu...

High school pupils start exams

Thousands of senior high school students are due to begin sitting their university entrance exams today...

Photographer held in London

A 53-year-old Greek amateur photographer will be tried in a London court on Monday on charges of «causing public harassment, alarm or distress»...

Google’s Street View...

A car rigged with a camera yesterday toured the capital, taking pictures of roads for Google's Street View feature.

Circus with animals may not come to town

Authorities are considering a ban on circuses featuring performing animals, it emerged yesterday, after a video showing a circus trainer battering an elephant with a pole was posted on the Internet.

IN BRIEF

Ex-fire service chief turns himself in to police in Lamia : The former head of the Fire Service and the Civil Protection Authority, Panayiotis Fourlas, turned up at the central police station in Lamia...

No return for jailed holy man : An ecclesiastical court decided yesterday to defrock the former archbishop of Attica, Panteleimon...

Suspected suicide : A 35-year-old man was found hanging from a basketball hoop in the Athens neighborhood of Aghioi Anargyroi...

Railway disruption : Passengers on the Kifissia-Piraeus electric railway are set to experience further disruptions to their journeys over the next two weekends...

Euro elections : The European Parliament's office in Greece said yesterday that it will set up a kiosk in Syntagma Square from May 21 to inform citizens...

Karpathos quake : A quake measuring 4.7 Richter struck the Dodecanese island of Karpathos just after noon yesterday but did not cause any damage...

Cereals withdrawn : The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) said yesterday that it was withdrawing three types of breakfast cereal...


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24-hour strike... A resident of the island of Hydra in the Saronic Gulf minds his donkey yesterday as tourists board a high-speed ferry bound for Piraeus. The country's ports yesterday were unaffected by a 24-hour strike by the civil servants' union ADEDY that resulted in the cancellation of dozens of international and domestic flights, including 110 Olympic Airlines routes and 48 Aegean Airlines connections.

EDITORIAL

Voters want to be free of blinders It is most understandable that all of the country's political parties will want to mobilize their supporters ahead of the European parliamentary elections in an attempt to polarize the political climate and maximize their share of the vote. However, the times when the vast majority of the voting public was staunchly polarized have long been consigned to the trash can of history. Greece's public opinion is far more mature these days and the populist tactics of even the recent past do not hold as much sway as they used to. Rather, such strategies seem to act as a deterrent for a crucial segment of the public, who prefer to vote without having to don partisan blinders.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

A sinister turn in our immigration problems In the last few weeks, Athens took a serious fall down the slippery slope of xenophobia and intolerance. Not that it was unexpected: For over a year, anyone who cared about the capital city and its center - as well as anyone who cared about the fate of illegal immigrants - warned that abandoning migrants to their own devices would lead to trouble. And so, last Saturday, members of the extreme right-wing Chryssi Avgi group (Golden Dawn) gathered to hurl abuse and objects at migrants squatting in the former appeals court building on Socratous Street, a block away from Omonia Square. Chryssi Avgi has been around a lot longer than the immigrants and its members need no excuse for vile and violent outbursts. But the immigration problem has become so serious that we run the risk of Chryssi Avgi's message of hatred gaining a foothold in the mainstream.

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