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Traffic jams only snag in mass Easter escape Hundreds of thousands of Easter holidaymakers leaving cities around Greece yesterday for the long weekend did not face any serious problems in their travels apart from heavy traffic on national roads, authorities said.

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Authorities at sea over smuggling of immigrants

Improving weather in the Aegean may be a good omen for the tourism industry, but coast guards are dreading the influx of thousands of boats into Greek waters...

Feeble registry dooms forests

Greece's forests remain exposed to developers who illegally build on public property as the government has failed to prepare...

Pilgrims kept off Mt Athos

Hundreds of pilgrims and priests intending to visit the monastic community of Mount Athos...

Greece is claiming tsipouro

The alcoholic drink tsipouro may soon follow in the steps of feta cheese and become...

No sting in the tail as swarm of bees tamed

A beekeeper rescued motorists and emergency workers who had to flee the scene...

IN BRIEF

Parts of central Athens off-limits today due to Easter celebrations : Traffic police will cordon off parts of central Athens today and tomorrow due...

Boy of 14 believed to have stolen 9 cars arrested after police chase : A car chase in western Athens on Tuesday ended with the arrest of a 14-year-old boy...

Head of ailing airliner is replaced : The head of the executive committee of Olympic Airlines, Petros Papageorgiou, was sacked...

Imia error : The website of the Turkish Embassy in Washington features a map showing...

Butchers grilled : Two butchers at the Varvakeios Market in central Athens were fined...

Dirty shops : Inspectors from the Athens Prefecture yesterday supplied 23 files...

Train stunt : Police and rescue teams were searching yesterday for a man who leapt out...

Rowdy customers : A waiter at a central Athens restaurant was treated for head injuries...


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EDITORIAL

Record forestland to avoid its doom Discussion is due to begin after Easter on amendments to Article 24 of the Constitution, which concerns the protection of forests. However, the Greek State does not appear to know which forests it is supposed to be protecting or even where exactly they are located. Since there are still no forest maps for 94 percent of the country...

COMMENTARY

The dead cost nothing «Not the archers. Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. Their dead cost nothing,» Edward Longshanks, king of England, tells his general as they are about to face the Scottish troops. The famous line from «Braveheart» comes to mind as I see oil prices reaching record levels, commodities following a similar trend in the international markets...

OPINION

An absence of workable models The findings of recent opinion polls are truly paradoxical: The overwhelming majority of Greeks claim to accept the need for reforms while simultaneously rejecting any initiatives proposed by the government.

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