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Universities to sit exams Education Ministry presents bill on assessing tertiary education bodies In the face of strong opposition from academic staff unions, the government yesterday presented a new draft law that would subject Greek universities to an annual assessment process, starting next year.

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Farmers guzzling water

Amid fears about the availability and quality of water for drinking and irrigation, figures made public yesterday showed...

Officer ‘stole’ air force secrets

An air force captain serving at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Athens is under investigation on suspicion of passing on classified...

State cruise hits a snag

A new Labor Ministry program to provide a classier form of holiday for Greek pensioners and low-earning employees received a jolt yesterday...

Psyttaleia sludge is piling up

Piles of processed sewage with nowhere to go are building up again at the Psyttaleia treatment plant, according to Piraeus Prefect Yiannis Michas...

Naval skinny-dippers convicted of assault

A Hania court yesterday handed down suspended jail sentences of up to 19 months to three Spanish crew members of a NATO naval unit who stabbed...

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Vartholomaios calls upon patriarch to resign for good of the Church, himself : Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios late yesterday called upon...

Greek women have poorest career prospects in EU, global report finds : Women in Greece have the poorest career prospects in the European Union...

Police to be trained to handle victims : Police are being equipped with a manual of instructions on how to deal with victims...

Tax declarations : Citizens can submit their E9 property declarations electronically...

Turkish violations : A total of 30 Turkish military jets yesterday violated Greek air space...

Public enterprises : The president of the Athens Water Supply and Sewage Company (EYDAP), Sifis Gliniadakis, yesterday submitted...

Russian boycott : Russia has imposed a ban on live chicken imports and eggs...

Child suicide : A 12-year-old schoolboy from a village near the northwestern port of Preveza hanged...

Star drafted : Star pop singer Antonis Remos is to be drafted for military service...


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Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis meets...

EDITORIAL

Wanted: A strategy for water resources Infrequent reports on the water reserves of Greece and the broader region paint a very bleak picture of the future. Repeated warnings, however, have failed to prompt any action. And no government has braved the political cost of punishing farmers for their excessive use of water which, especially on the Thessaly plain, has reached unnerving proportions.

COMMENTARY

The elusive ‘imiypethrios’ I looked through several dictionaries, but was unable to find a definition for the Greek word «imiypethrios» (half-open to the air - an open space that has been illegally enclosed) which has been costing taxpayers their sleep for some time now. That is not so strange, as each profession tends to produce the jargon it needs faster that the lexicographers can record it. Imiypethrios could be considered...

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