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Tertiary reform stands Giannakou won’t delay entrance rules; KEDKE to protest in Thessaloniki Education Minister Marietta Giannakou yesterday rejected calls from regional authorities to slow down the introduction stricter entrance criteria for tertiary institutions in order to fill some of the 18,000 unfilled slots at technical colleges (TEIs).

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PM voices concern on graft struggle

Efforts to combat corruption in Greece have so far not been as successful as the government has wanted...

Briton charged in deadly fall

A British tourist who leapt from a hotel balcony in Crete earlier this month with his two children - killing one and injuring the other - was charged with murder and attempted murder yesterday.

Professor held on ’73 warrant

The government said yesterday it would investigate how a university professor was detained for two hours after a miscommunication between police and the courts over a warrant issued against the academic in 1973.

Cold, humidity bad for heart

The combination of cold weather and high levels of humidity can be fatal for those with heart problems, according to a group of Greek scientists whose groundbreaking research showed that a third more fatal heart attacks occur in the winter than in summer.

A firefighting plane...

A firefighting plane drops water on a blaze that broke out yesterday in Mandra, west of Athens. Thirty firefighters...

Man, 78, used cash to entice schoolboys

A 78-year-old man was yesterday charged by a Piraeus prosecutor with attempting to molest two teenage schoolboys in nearby Keratsini, southwest Athens.

IN BRIEF

Nicosia says it is focused on talks as Papadopoulos resigns from DIKO : Nicosia insisted yesterday that it was seeking to improve relations with Turkish-Cypriot officials...

Hania-based Irenaios named as successor to Timotheos on island : The Ecumenical Patriarchate yesterday named Bishop of Kydonia and Apokoronas Irenaios as the new archbishop of Crete...

Thousands to cast ballot for first time : More than 230,000 teenagers over the age of 18 will be voting for the first time in their lives...

Car restrictions : The odd/even circulation system for cars in the center of Athens will come into effect again on Monday...

Sea sick : Six adults and eight children traveling aboard a Louis Cruise Lines cruise boat were taken to a hospital in Mytilene...

Bus lanes : The Athens Urban Transport Association (OASA) said yesterday that two new will start operating...

Labor Day : The US Embassy and consular section in Athens and the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki will be shut on Monday...

Police stations : Public Order Minister Vyron Polydoras is expected to open three new in Thessaloniki...

Migrants caught : Coast guard officers arrested 12 Afghan migrants on the eastern Aegean island of Samos yesterday morning...

Honda recall : The Development Ministry announced yesterday the recall of 221 Honda Civic 5D 2006 vehicles...


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Vassilis Spanoulis...
EDITORIAL

Growth doesn’t need state support Despite warnings to the contrary from the opposition, Greece did not go into a recession after the 2004 Olympic Games. The growth rate has remained steady, as well as being the second highest in the European Union. However, there is a subtle but real distinction between the growth rate as we know it now and that of the past. While under PASOK administrations the high growth rate was fed by state investments, these days the positive results are due more to the way the market itself functions.

COMMENTARY

Fixations and pragmatism Turkey's new chief of staff General Yasar Buyukanit is a typical example of a Turkish patriot - in the traditional sense of the word, often scoffed at as reactionary. At a time when the EU is striving to convince Ankara to transform its political system in order to join the European club, Buyukanit has made it clear that the nation's armed forces will not give up its decisive role in dealing with political challenges. For Buyukanit, Turkey is faced with two main threats, namely Islamic radicalism and Kurdish separatism.

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