Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-02-29

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[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The FYROM name issue, given the commencement of a new round of UN-brokered negotiations between Greece and FYROM that opens in New York on Friday, the planned social security reforms, and imminent changes in the education sector, were the main front-page items in Friday's dailies.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Barrage of robberies - Public very worried".

APOGEVMATINI: "Examinations also in junior year of high school - PASOK (main opposition party) proposal for AEI and TEI (tertiary education) entrance examinations", according to which the results of the highschool (lyceum) students' nationwide examinations in their junior and senior years will be tallied, and the final result examined by the individual AEI and TEI themselves for approval of the candidates on the basis of minimum requirements to be set out by each individual AEI and TEI.

AVGHI: "The US escalating pressure on Athens - New round of (FYROM name) negotiations today in New York".

AVRIANI: "Dimitris Sioufas (parliament president) 'president of all the Greeks' - He prohibited police and prosecutors from examining parliament's PCs, from which journalists, MPs and ministers uploaded articles freely and anonymously on the internet", adding that Sioufas proved to be a protector of the laws, and mainly the Greek citizens' constitutionally-guaranteed right to freely express their views orally, in written form, and via the press.

CHORA: "Hard poker with hot bullets - Athens sees traps in Nimetz's proposals - Today the first meeting between Vassilakis (Greece's negotiator in the FYROM name talks) and Nimetz (the UN special mediator on the FYROM name issue)".

ELEFTHEROS: "Suddenly, George (PASOK leader Papandreou) following same policy line as Karamanlis: On veto, demonstration over FYROM, and the bloggers", in a change of PASOK's political tactics so as to avert his party's isolation.

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "End to the 'eternal' students (in higher education) - Education minister to deliver tomorrow to the Rectors the internal rules of operation of the Universities - Fear of new round of clashes over Education".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "6 regulations toughen the social security reforms".

ESTIA: "Euro-Dollar: the repercussions - In six years, the euro parity (over the dollar) rose by 70 percent" (from 0.88 cents to the dollar in 2002 when the euro was established as the official currency of the then 12 members of the euro-zone).

ETHNOS: "Pardon granted 37 times - Ministerial impunity to 'blue' businessman over plethora of court convictions (for bounced checks)".

KATHIMERINI: "FYROM intransigence before the talks - Greek political parties take negative stance to 'extreme' manifestations (of protests)".

NIKI: "Triple vise from US, NATO, EU - Government in a tight squeeze over the FYROM issue".

PARASKEVI+13 (weekly): "Greece-US 'war' over FYROM - The first official diplomatic clash will take place on Thursday in NATO (at the meeting of foreign ministers of NATO member countries)".

RIZOSPASTIS: "The ports to pass to private concerns, with the seal of ND and PASOK -The relevant bill tabled".

TA NEA: "Double brake on social security reforms - They're re-cooking the regulations".

TO VIMA: "Ultimatum from Brussels (EU headquarters) on OTE (Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation, calling on government not to apply the law prohibiting the acquisition of a share package in OTE higher than 20 percent) and on OPAP (Greece's lottery operator)".

VRADYNI: "Post-graduate degrees from the TEI (technical institutions of higher education) too - 3 bround-breaking bills on higher education".

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