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Half of Greeks are in debt Central bank says households not overburdened despite increase in loans One in two households have currently contracted some form of debt, usually a credit card or a home-owner's loan, but the country's borrowers are not considered to be in over their heads, according to survey results published yesterday.

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Start of exams as turmoil continues

Many of the 94,600 senior high school students who will try to gain a university place this summer begin their exams...

Returning trucks trigger gridlock

Hundreds of trucks caused traffic chaos in central Athens and on the national road yesterday...

Garden trees stoke allergies

The trend of planting small Leyland Cypress trees in Athenian gardens is fueling a rise in the number of people...

Siemens bribe clue surfaces

German electronics and engineering giant Siemens paid, via its subsidiary in Greece, more than 1.3 million euros to Greek politicians...

Korydallos Prison...

A group of senior government officials inspect...

Police crack extortion ring in Athens suburbs

Three members of an alleged ring of extortionists swindling thousands of euros from owners of businesses in the southern suburbs...

IN BRIEF

Government says it disapproves of legal action against PASOK leader : The government yesterday distanced itself...

Two children hurt when 2-ton gate to basketball court collapses on them : Two children, both aged 10, were recovering in the hospital...

EFET seizes another 3,000-ton batch : The Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) said yesterday...

Detention death : A 28-year-old Iraqi immigrant yesterday died in a detention center...

Green House : Energy regulator RAE approved yesterday...

Tax declarations : The deadlines for the submission of income tax forms have been postponed...

Murder charge : Police on Crete yesterday charged a 30-year-old man...

Illegal immigrants : Authorities said yesterday they had arrested 117 illegal immigrants...

Flight disruptions : Tens of domestic Olympic Airlines flights were canceled or delayed...

Israeli response : The Israeli Embassy yesterday issued a statement expressing disappointment...


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Fylis landfill... An earth-moving machine is seen yesterday preparing the site of a new landfill...

TODAY'S PHOTO

Not a traffic cop anywhere in sight A single strike can be like opening up Pandora's box. Once the long strike by tanker truck owners was over, they hastened to make up for lost income and in doing so clogged the national highway and every entrance to Athens. Thousands of drivers went from being hostages to the gasoline shortage, to being trapped by the zeal of the truckers. The question, however, is not about strikes or employees in other sectors working too much.

COMMENTARY

Judicious ancients If we really wanted to find common DNA traits among the Greeks, lawsuit mania would be a good place to start. Every year, half a million legal actions are filed in Greece. In fact, the Justice Ministry once considered levying a small charge of some 10 euros from plaintiffs in the hope that this would make people think twice. The ancient Greeks were also equally fond of litigation, and even Aristophanes felt compelled to satirize them in his plays.

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