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Consensus all too brief Major parties agree on European Constitution, wrangle over foreign policy Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday called on opposition parties to help build «the broadest consensus possible» on issues of both domestic and foreign policy and indicated that he was open to a wide-ranging debate about the most important issues of concern to the country.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Police to train regional forces

Greek police will use the know-how acquired in training for last year's Athens Olympics to train security forces from other Balkan countries...

Papadopoulos poised for talks

As Turkish Cypriots prepare to elect a new leader tomorrow...

Publisher jailed for blackmail

Far-right publisher Grigoris Michalopoulos was taken to Korydallos Prison yesterday...

GI priests get the go-ahead

Greek Orthodox priests and monks will soon be trading their cassocks for military uniforms...

Late Archbishop of North and South America...

Late Archbishop of North and South America Iakovos lies in state at the chapel of the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School...

Motorbikes stolen in Japan, sold in Greece

Three Greeks and a Japanese man were charged with involvement in a gang that - for at least five years - stole high-powered motorcycles...

IN BRIEF

Competition Commission calls for fines of 16.8 mln euros on union, 7 stores : The Competition Commission yesterday proposed the imposition of a 15-million-euro fine...

Greece will clear up its border areas ahead of schedule, minister tells NGO : Deputy Defense Minister Vassilis Michaloliakos yesterday pledged to accelerate an initiative...

Aid group takes back Greek contingent : Doctors without Borders has been reunited with its Greek contingent...

Gynecologist convicted : An Athens appeals court yesterday passed down a suspended 20-month jail sentence...

Journalists protest : The Athens Journalists' Union (ESIEA) yesterday protested...

Hash haul : Border guards in Kastoria yesterday arrested three Albanians...

Arson caught : A 29-year-old man caught yesterday in the act of setting fire to forestland...

Abduction : A Thessaloniki man who allegedly took 30,000 euros from six foreigners...

Migrants detained : Coast guard officials have detained 23 illegal immigrants...


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EDITORIAL

Public on the sidelines The way in which Greece intends to ratify the European Constitution is yet another sign of the so-called democratic deficit bedeviling EU affairs. We need not underscore the significance of the treaty for the future of our country and Europe in general. Nevertheless, Greece is expected to give the green light through an ordinary parliamentary session amid a striking absence of public discussion on the issue.

COMMENTARY

Consensus or conflict? "If Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and opposition leader George Papandreou were to take a stroll, chatting, from Syntagma Square down to Omonia Square, some 80 percent of the economy's problems would cease to exist,» a banker said the other day. An overstatement? Maybe. No matter how slowly they walked, they would still not have enough time to reach a compromise on thorny economy issues.

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