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Police shake-up for Crete Officers close to identifying eight of the Zoniana ambush suspects The government yesterday said it was committed to combatting organized crime in Zoniana and anywhere else in the country, stressing that police on Crete would be restructured and subject to closer control.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Ministry plans to merge funds

The conservative government intends to merge scores of pension funds as part of planned reforms...

Call to tighten checks on medics

The Athens Medical Association (AMA) has called for changes to rules regulating the credentials of health professionals...

Monastery on Halki wrecked

The partial demolition by Turkish forestry authorities of a 19th-century Orthodox monastery on the island of Halki...

No rise in prison deaths

The number of prisoner deaths occurring in Greek jails over the last 10 years has remained relatively steady...

New tramline extension...

Transport Minister Costis Hatzidakis...

Tornado rips off roofs, damages cars

A tornado hit a village in central Greece yesterday, uprooting trees, tearing off roofs from houses...

IN BRIEF

About half of blood for transfusion not adequately tested, experts say : Only 60 percent of blood available for transfusion in this country...

Street cleaners start gathering tons of trash in Neo Iraklion : Municipal street cleaners in Neo Iraklion...

Christodoulos suffering side effects : Archbishop Christodoulos visited Athens's Aretaion Hospital yesterday...

Murder probe : Police on Crete yesterday said they expected the results...

Outgoing migrants : Coast guard officials on Wednesday detained six illegal immigrants...

Time running out : Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat warned yesterday...

Thief arrested : A 43-year-old man has been charged with five counts of burglary in Thessaloniki...

Armed robbery : An armed man held up a post office in Thessaloniki yesterday...

Food confiscated : More than 450 tons of imported food and animal feed has been confiscated...


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Athens Polytechnic...
EDITORIAL

Law enforcement and political will Developments in the Cretan village of Zoniana have shown two things. Firstly, that the total absence of the state generates lawlessness and, secondly, that petty crime leads to more serious things and eventually grows to become organized crime. And this is precisely what has been happening on the island of Crete in recent years.

COMMENTARY

Sure, but not right now How many times have we heard the answer «not yet» to any sort of demand for modernization, to any proposal for reform. An electoral law that will ensure fair representation and cleanse the political arena? Certainly, just not right now... Why not? It's too early, society isn't ready, it will be disrupted. What will be disrupted? No answer. There may be one guess: Corruption and cronyism and inertia will be disrupted.

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