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Labor relations prove vital After sailors’ strike, poll suggests pressure on government as well as unions As the government embarks on a period when its labor relations will be severely tested, a poll conducted on behalf of Sunday's Kathimerini indicates New Democracy leaders, as well as unionists, must do more to solve their problems.

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State to put price on its lost land

People who have taken possession of state land illegally may soon be able to buy the property, as the Economy and Finance Ministry is preparing legislation that could reap the state...

EU aid move pleases Cyprus

Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos yesterday expressed his satisfaction with a European Union decision to release 139 million euros in blocked funding...

Leftists claim French blasts

A group expressing solidarity with a French far-left organization has claimed responsibility for two bomb attacks on French business interests in Athens over the weekend which caused...

Police chief calls time on career

Greece's top policeman, Lieutenant General Giorgos Angelakos, said on Saturday that he was stepping down to make way at the top of the force for a new generation of officers...

Christodoulos rails at Europe and cartoons

Archbishop Christodoulos, the head of the Church of Greece, yesterday attacked Europe for operating in a «moral vacuum» and said that cartoons depicting the Muslim Prophet Muhammad had given Muslims an excuse to vent their anger against the West....

IN BRIEF

Italians confirm Turin subway built for less than Aegaleo extension : The company managing the recently built metro system in Turin, GTT, confirmed...

Trees and billboards blown down : An early-morning storm caused minor damage...

Negative test : An Afghan immigrant tested negative for bird flu on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos...

Base protest : Peace campaigners from around the world protested outside...

Road block : More than 200 farmers blocked the national road...

Rice row : Rice farmers used 150 tractors to halt traffic...

Fan attack : Some 20 hooligans on motorbikes early on Saturday attacked...


THIIS WEEK

Monday : Deputy Foreign Minister Evripidis Stylianidis is on a visit...

Tuesday : Greek Federation of Bank Employees' Unions (OTOE) to stage...

Wednesday : Greek Teachers' Federation (DOE) and State Senior High School Teachers' Federation (OLME) to stage...

Thursday : Greek Teachers' Federation (DOE) and High School Teachers' Federation (OLME) to stage...


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EDITORIAL

A society in need of fresh policies Since the mid-1980s, when Andreas Papandreou's PASOK government launched its «stabilization» drive after acknowledging that the Greek economy had hit a crisis, working Greeks have been under pressure. Indeed, it is the workers who suffer the consequences of our governments' great weakness for drafting policies aimed at boosting growth; it is they who must endure the repercussions of the country's excessive indebtedness;...

COMMENTARY

The current debt The seamen's strike started out as just another bout of Greece's endless labor action. But the angry and justified reactions of the Cretan farmers who saw themselves cut off from their European markets, and the collapse of the strike after the government placed the strikers under military orders, show that union leaders have got to face the fact that the world has changed for them just as it has for the rest of us. Greek society has transformed rapidly in this era of open borders and open markets.

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