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Premier stands by reforms Karamanlis says conservatives intend to remain focused on changes The government is determined to push ahead with its reforms agenda, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said yesterday, despite polls showing that the majority of Greeks believe they will come out losers from the changes.

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PM raps ‘falsity’ of name proposal

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said yesterday that the latest United Nations proposal for a solution to the Macedonia name dispute...

Tight networks fuel drug trade

The illegal drug trade is flourishing in Greece, thanks to a «pyramid» system of dealers and middlemen that is perpetuated...

Crete balcony death unlawful

A 6-year-old boy who died when he was pushed from a hotel balcony by his father in Crete was unlawfully killed...

Greece lies high on EU list of poor

One in three Greeks does not have access to basic food and clothing, as Greece is home to the second-largest population of poor people...

Four officers sacked for abusing detainees

Two policemen and two border guards have been sacked for their alleged involvement in the torture and humiliation of two Albanian detainees...

IN BRIEF

Court hands five life terms to father and son for 2006 killings of five : A court yesterday sentenced livestock farmer Dionysis Foukas...

More than 2,000 officers to watch over Panathenaic Stadium ceremony : Police will deploy more than 2,000 officers in Athens...

Lawyer faces blackmail charges : Lawyer Christos Nikoloutsopoulos, a key witness in the alleged blackmail...

Cyprus talks : Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias said yesterday...

Omonia body : Police found the body of homeless man in Omonia...

Robbery ring : Police in Thessaloniki said yesterday that they have traced...

License to con : A Chinese man tried to fool Athens prefectural officials...

Suspects confess : Two foreign nationals have confessed to murdering a 24-year-old man...

Street shooting : A 30-year-old Albanian was in the hospital yesterday...


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Nicosia’s Ledra Street...
EDITORIAL

Plans aplenty, but where’s the juice? Just one thing can be said about Greece's energy policy: Plans abound but there is little electrical current. The plethora of investment plans for the production of photovoltaic energy were aimed more at the fat subsidies than meeting the country's real energy needs. Neither consumers nor the aspiring entrepreneurs have emerged as winners, but rather the middlemen, the engineering design firms which have received...

COMMENTARY

Lessons from Tibet The violent crackdown on pro-Tibet demonstrations has shed some light in the closet of China's economic miracle, revealing an authoritarian regime and unfettered capitalism. Staring at the closet is a hypocritical West that hails the cheap industrial and free trade zones, but turns a blind eye to the oppressive practices, the environmental disaster and the violation of so-called universal human rights.

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