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Migrant pupils ‘excluded’ More Greek language lessons would improve social integration, study shows Most of the country's schools have been unable to absorb foreign pupils, even though they account for a tenth of schoolchildren, chiefly due to an absence of Greek language lessons on the syllabus, education experts say.

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PM says Vatopedi has not made dent

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis insists that he is still feeling «powerful» despite the escalation of the Vatopedi Monastery scandal...

Cohabitation bill not for gays

Justice Minister Sotiris Hatzigakis yesterday stressed that a proposed cohabitation law, granting heterosexual couples living together...

Police rap for youth beating

Three policemen out of the eight implicated in the violent beating of a Cypriot student during a Thessaloniki protest...

World Food Day...

Children hold aloft a Doctors without Borders flag in Athens yesterday...

Series of rolling metro stoppages starts today

Athens metro services will be severely disrupted as of today for almost two weeks, due to work stoppages...

IN BRIEF

Union appeals to court over lack of staff and infrastructure : The Association of Hospital Doctors of Athens and Piraeus has lodged...

Skopje bides time on proposal : The government of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) made it clear...

Gas explosion : A strong explosion provoked by a liquid gas canister leak at the home...

Store raid : A group of youngsters raided a supermarket near Victoria Square in central Athens...

Bar blast : A homemade explosive device caused serious damage to a bar...

Mystery death : Police in Athens were investigating the circumstances behind the death...

Coach fire : A fire broke out yesterday on a coach en route to Thessaloniki from Ukraine...

Grounded : President Karolos Papoulias was stuck in Vietnam yesterday...


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Rising crime... Residents and store owners held a rally in the Exarchia district of central Athens...

EDITORIAL

Lessons on lockouts are needed The lockouts at schools have become something like the first rain in the autumn or the traditional annual strike by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) union. Every fall, small groups of pupils take over entire school complexes with various demands that vary from the perfectly logical to the downright absurd. There is, for example, currently a lockout at a school in Athens because children are demanding «more products in the school canteen.»

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Hell is other people Athens traffic is a mess. And it is getting worse every day. Everyone wants to be mobile and everyone wants to make things easier for him/herself. And everyone ends up stuck in a traffic jam. We have created a city that is hell to live in. And it's mostly because of the cars - and our inability to make decisions that will make life easier. This may seem an exaggeration. But let's look at the city a little more carefully; let's imagine Athens without cars. It is built on a coastal plain ringed by mountains and is rich in beauty and history.

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