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Calls grow to curb immigration PM to push issue at EU summit this week, as opposition ups the ante and coast guard struggles Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday telephoned his counterpart in the Czech Republic, which currently holds the European Union presidency, to press for greater EU support in curbing a seemingly relentless influx of illegal immigrants.

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Blaze threatens suburban homes

A fire that broke out on the slopes of Mount Hymettus early yesterday afternoon and quickly spread, prompting dozens of residents to abandon their homes...

Gov’t initiative on accountability

In a bid to reverse the negative climate that has engulfed the government since its defeat in European elections earlier this month...

More measures as flu cases rise

A national committee set up to coordinate the response to outbreaks of swine flu in Greece yesterday...

Members of Bulgarian ATM gang arrested

Police in northern Greece said on Sunday that they had broken up an «extremely well organized» gang of Bulgarian fraudsters...

IN BRIEF

Former technical director released after testifying : A former Siemens Hellas executive, Dionysis Dendrinos, was released on bail yesterday...

Suspects chased on Patission St : Police were involved in a shootout with two men on a motorcycle yesterday...

Briton returns : A British man who spent nearly three years in a Greek psychiatric hospital...

Traders protest : Shopkeepers in central Athens have pledged to cordon off Pireos Street...

Landfill opens : Garbage trucks yesterday morning started gathering thousands of tons of festering trash...

Child porn : A 35-year-old man arrested on the Ionian island of Corfu over the weekend...

Armed robbery : Two robbers, one armed with a submachine gun and another with a revolver...


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EDITORIAL

Message falls on deaf ears The Greek electorate sent its message loud and clear in the European Parliament elections on June 7, but it looks like the country's two biggest parties have failed to hear it. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis was given a final opportunity to reshuffle his Cabinet, to take bold decisions to reduce the public deficit, to do something about the current lack of public order on Greek streets, out-of-control illegal immigration and a crumbling education sector.

COMMENTARY

Misreading the situation The European Parliament elections of June 7 showed in the clearest way that two - maybe three - parties paid the price for misreading the events of last December. You may remember the barrels of ink spilled analyzing the so-called «left turn» taken by society. Some even hastened to predict that SYRIZA would benefit the most. The exact opposite happened, as the student elections had already indicated.

EDITORIAL:AthensPlus

Sinking in the status quo Nothing highlights the shortsightedness of those who govern Greece more than the disaster of our pension system. It reads like the script of a horror movie: Workers and employers pay exorbitant health and pension dues, which, along with huge state subsidies, are so badly mismanaged that Greeks have pathetic state health and education systems; this forces them to pay out of their pockets for medical treatment and tuition.

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