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FYROM talks this week Diplomats to air views on UN proposal in New York meeting Diplomats from Athens and Skopje will meet in New York by the end of this week for a final round of talks aimed at settling the Macedonia name dispute, sources said yesterday.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Christofias makes start on dialogue

New Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias has contacted Turkish-Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat...

Tsekou grilled over ‘blackmail’

The former assistant of Christos Zachopoulos, Evi Tsekou, told a magistrate yesterday that she recorded...

Euro coin toss won by Greek

The «stick man» design of a Greek sculptor has been chosen in an online poll to be put on the new 2-euro coin...

Forests are thriving despite fire

The expanse of Greece's forestland is increasing, despite the impact of last summer's devastating wildfires...

Court workers transfer...

Court workers transfer legal briefs...

Police nab kidnapper in Thessaloniki snare

Police have detained a 55-year-old man in Thessaloniki for allegedly masterminding...

IN BRIEF

Sunday explosion at ministry blamed on Popular Revolutionary Struggle : Police believe that the Popular Revolutionary Struggle (LED) urban guerrilla group was behind...

Seismologists urge public to ignore rumors that big tremor is on way : The Organization of Antiseismic Planning and Protection yesterday called...

Reporter named in dozens of suits : Journalist Andreas Kapsampelis, in charge of press-gr news blog, has been charged...

Officer stabbed : An off-duty police officer was stabbed in the stomach...

Apartment blaze : A fire that broke out in a third-floor apartment in Thessaloniki...

Bank robbery : An armed man held up a branch of Piraeus Bank in Thessaloniki...

Unwanted fruit : Protests by schoolchildren in Thessaloniki, including abstention from classes, have forced...

Cannabis hauls : Police detained an Albanian and a Greek near the border with Albania yesterday...

Road fatality : A motorist was killed on Sunday evening...


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‘We are resisting’...
EDITORIAL

Port reforms near implementation Greece's ports are the main engine of its economy. The problem is that in recent years the engine has been malfunctioning. A powerful interest group is putting the brakes on efforts to upgrade the country's harbors. This is undermining their competitiveness and depriving state coffers of millions of euros. At the same time, the surcharge imposed by large transport companies - because they don't know if their freight will be unloaded or not - is passed on to the price of goods, increasing inflationary pressures.

COMMENTARY

Left under supervision? Back in the not-so-distant past, the news that a communist party leader had been elected president of Cyprus would have given the Athens government the creeps. To the more conservative pundits, the people on the left were lacking in patriotism, at best. These days, the election of Communist Party (AKEL) leader Dimitris Christofias as president...

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