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National zoning plan gets go-ahead from the Cabinet Thousands pour onto Kavala streets to protest coal power plant project As the government unveiled the country's first national zoning plan yesterday, protesters in Kavala, northern Greece held the biggest demonstration seen in the city in 25 years to demand the shelving of plans to construct a new coal-powered energy plant in the area.

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US push on FYROM solution bid

Scheduled talks in New York tomorrow between United Nations envoy Matthew Nimetz and diplomats from Athens and Skopje...

Tsekou up for more questions

Evi Tsekou, the former lover of ex-Culture Ministry general secretary Christos Zachopoulos is set to be questioned today...

Crime squad to check House PCs

The electronic crimes squad is expected to collect information from the computers in Parliament today...

Rectors to call for law changes

University rectors, who are due to convene tomorrow, are set to propose to the government that it make some changes...

Lost ostrich found on fast lane of highway

An ostrich found wandering in the fast lane of a provincial highway outside Thessaloniki early yesterday morning....

IN BRIEF

Tsiatouras, known for 'hands-on' approach replaces Dimoschakis : Lieutenant General Vassilis Tsiatouras was yesterday appointed as the new chief of the Greek Police...

Ex-education minister who lost her leg undergoes heart surgery : Former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou underwent an operation yesterday...

President to name ministers today : Cyprus President Dimitris Christofias is today expected to announce...

Trash strike : Athens municipal authorities yesterday appealed to citizens...

Salesman shot : A street vendor peddling his wares in the small town of Neohori...

Pedestrian killed : A 30-year-old man was killed in Derveni, close to Thessaloniki...

Isolated : Residents of Skopelos, Skiathos and Alonnissos yesterday...

Flying fears : A quarter of the population feels extremely anxious about air travel...


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EDITORIAL

University elections and blackmail No one can disagree with the demands of university deans for better funding, nor with five-year degrees being awarded the equivalent of a master's. What has caused a stir is that deans are also asking for academia and the state to submit to the blackmail of a handful of party-affiliated student union leaders who are trying, with the use of force, to cancel upcoming university elections.

COMMENTARY

Name issue demands decisions Objectively speaking, Athens has the power to impose an honorable settlement in the Macedonia name dispute. But this is not enough. Athens must show that it also has the will to use this power. UN mediator Matthew Nimetz has proposed five different names of which only one, that of «Upper Macedonia,»...

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