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EFET head steps down Food authority will recall all sunflower oil imported this year The head of the Hellenic Food Authority (EFET) resigned yesterday after 6,000 tons of contaminated sunflower oil had entered the market, highlighting weaknesses in the country's food control system.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Support for elite force of firefighters

The leader of Parliament's environmental committee yesterday backed a call by conservation group WWF Hellas...

Delays overshadow Akrotiri roof

Plans for constructing a new roof over the Akrotiri archaeological site on the island of Santorini have been submitted...

Students rally over reforms

Rallies by students protesting university reforms are expected to cause traffic disruptions...

Athletes, coach are charged

A prosecutor has filed misdemeanor charges against 25 people in a recent doping scandal...

Seafront out of private hands...

SYRIZA MP Alekos Alavanos (l) and the communist mayor of Hellenikon, Christos Kortzidis...

Extensive child porn network uncovered

The discovery of child pornography on the laptop of a truck driver from the Peloponnese has led...

IN BRIEF

Garbage truck driver found with six; dozens stopped on islands : Police in Trikala, central Greece, yesterday arrested the driver...

Birds ground plane from Thessaloniki; more OA domestic route disruption : The 226 passengers who had been due to board a flight to Britain...

Greek, FYROM leaders at summit : Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and the president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...

Bank targeted : Unidentified assailants planted a homemade explosive device...

Rights pamphlet : The Interior Ministry has prepared an English-language pamphlet...

Votanikos traffic : Traffic in the Votanikos area continued to be heavy...

Weapons dumped : Police said some World War II weapons found in a grove of trees...

Permit forgers : Three Pakistani nationals have been arrested in Koropi...

School canteens : The Education and Interior ministries signed a joint agreement...

Gambling arrests : Five people have been arrested and two others are being sought in Hania...


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‘Dokimes’... It was heads down for students sitting university entrance exams...

EDITORIAL

Tertiary education held hostage The recent wave of sit-in demonstrations is an indication of how groups of students have abused asylum legislation to break the law at their own universities. But this is not the only problem. More alarming is the fact that they have decided to export their lawbreaking behavior to other university institutions. So after a small group of people occupied the University of Crete premises, they are now out to block elections at a nearby technical college.

COMMENTARY

Clinging to myth Some, it seems, are keen to see history replaced by modern-day myths. I felt compelled to return to the issue of how history is taught in this country after a near hair-raising letter sent to Kathimerini newspaper by Cypriot former minister Patroklos Stavrou attacking retired diplomat Vyron Theodoropoulos for daring to raise some questions concerning Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus. The desire to defend a myth can push an experienced politician to absurdity.

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