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PM set on pension reforms Conservatives promise to remain focused on changes despite protest action Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis promised yesterday to carry through with pension reforms, despite strong union protest, saying an overhaul of the ailing system was imperative.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Kladas inquiry will not be buried

An Athens appeals court prosecutor yesterday overturned a decision by a prosecutor into an offshoot of the Zachopoulos scandal to shelve the probe...

Cyprus elections too close to call

The three main candidates in tomorrow's presidential elections in Cyprus yesterday...

Country braces for cold snap

Most of the country is expected to be affected by extremely cold conditions this weekend...

Fuel vendors split over tax

Fuel distributors are scheduled to meet tomorrow to decide on their action plan against recently introduced government measures aimed at catching tax dodgers...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (right) and Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis (left)...

Gas station owner is killed in robbers’ spree

A 45-year-old gas station owner was fatally injured on Thursday night...

IN BRIEF

Owner of sunken ferry says it was not at fault, won't lift wreck : Louis Hellenic Cruises, the owner of the Sea Diamond ferry that sank off Santorini last year...

Dynamite under police chief's car causes damage but no injuries : A homemade explosive device that had been planted under the car of a local police chief in Hania...

Seven charged across country : Seven Greeks have been charged with trading in child pornography over the Internet...

Army suicide? : A 24-year-old reserve soldier was found dead yesterday at an army unit in Rhodope...

Monastery raid : Unidentified robbers removed a section of an iconostasis...

Blackmailers caught : A 28-year-old woman and her 30-year-old male companion have been arrested...

Cretan weapons : Police said yesterday they had arrested three men in Hania...

Post-quake checks : Local authorities in Messinia were yesterday inspecting public and private buildings...

Illegal immigrants : Coast guard officials arrested a 36-year-old male driver in Igoumenitsa yesterday...


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Protesters placed banners outside Parliament...

EDITORIAL

Political focus where it should be Tne may agree or disagree with what political party leaders said in Parliament yesterday but one cannot help but admit that politics has returned to its natural environment (that is, Parliament House) and with the right agenda (meaning the country's real problems).Even if for a brief time, the country has managed to escape the virtual reality imposed by the one-dimensional evening news bulletins.

Combating inflation At the beginning of next week, the Development Ministry will announce its new measures to contain prices. According to reports so far, the measures will be mostly for public consumption; they will neither stop rising prices nor punish profiteers, as the government had previously warned. Economy Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis insists that Greece's inflation has been imported from abroad but he fails to explain why price hikes in Greece hover at 3.9 percent when the EU average is 3.2 percent.

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