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PM defends OTE deal PASOK calls for parliamentary committee to investigate stake sale Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis defended the government's privatization policy in Parliament yesterday, saying the recent sale of an OTE telecom stake will serve the interests of the state, ahead of an expected vote on the deal.

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Protests grow as elections approach

The number of university faculties across Greece presently shut down due to sit-ins increased to 15 yesterday, from 10 on Thursday...

Rural businesswomen thrive

The majority of businesswomen in the provinces are local residents, of medium to low education...

Attackers firebomb police

A group of hooded arsonists staged a pre-dawn attack on a police station in the western Athens district of Aegaleo...

Father arrested for sex abuse

A 53-year-old man has been arrested in western Thessaloniki for allegedly raping his teenage daughter for the last six years...

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios...

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios emphasized the significance of protecting the environment...

Cyprus cracks down on errant jaywalkers

Cyprus police yesterday began enforcing new traffic regulations that impose a 9-euro (14-dollar) fine for pedestrians...

IN BRIEF

Firm accused of importing bulk of tainted shipment is shut down : Deputy Development Minister Giorgos Vlachos yesterday ordered the closure of a firm...

Minister, civil protection officials pledge better planning this year : Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos and senior officials from the Civil Protection Agency...

Student, 21, dies in Cretan brawl : A 21-year-old man was stabbed to death in a brawl outside a restaurant in Hania...

Siemens probe : A former OTE telecom executive and a current official, who have been implicated...

Turkey visit : Greece's military chief, General Dimitrios Grapsas, will visit Turkey on May 25 to discuss...

Fat Tony flies : Australian fugitive Tony Mokbel was extradited from Greece yesterday after losing a court battle...

Inmates transferred : Some 400 female inmates from Korydallos prison in Athens will be transferred to a new correction facility...

Strike off : Guards at the country's archaeological sites have called off a strike...


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Alekos Alavanos points... Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) MP Alekos Alavanos (right) points the finger at Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis in Parliament yesterday, accusing him...
EDITORIAL

Rector elections must go ahead The plans being made by a number of extremist student groups to disrupt procedures for the election of rectors at some of Greece's universities are, it goes without saying, illegal. However, canceling the elections for fear of these incidents or others like them, would only be playing into the hands of these groups. The government would appear to be succumbing to blackmail and the country's universities would be forever left at the mercy of such forces.

COMMENTARY

Necessary contacts The late Constantine Karamanlis never attended the SEV industrialists' annual congress, despite the participation of many influential players in the post-1974 years. Current Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis is always present at SEV congresses. He obviously sees the need to keep in contact with a key social partner. Similarly, he ought to attend the gatherings of GSEE, the general confederation of workers. The presence of Karamanlis as well as that of opposition leader George Papandreou demonstrates that the majority of Greece's political leaders have shed their obsolete statist ideas and have come to realize that only private initiative inside a free market can guarantee steady economic growth, more jobs and higher incomes.

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