Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-07-17

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

[01] Athens Newspaper Headlines

The wildfires throughout the country, the planned regulations for the Liberal Studies Centers (KES, or franchise colleges) and reactions, and political party finances were the main front-page items in Thursday's dailies.

ADESMEFTOS TYPOS: "Athens in a flaming vise - 158 wildfires broke out in a space of 24 hours throughout the country".

APOGEVMATINI: "Generous social measures for working people - Government's strong sensitivity in times of difficulty for all the peoples - The program affects 16,000 families, 2,000 more than last year".

AVGHI: "Wave of dismissals - 2,000 workers on the threshold of unemployment".

AVRIANI: "SDOE (financial crimes team) audits on political parties' finances - The impunity, with the taxpayers' money at that, must cease".

CHORA: "Alert over the economy - Scenarios on taxes and the social package - Premier to meet today with (economy and finance minister) Alogoskoufis".

ELEFTHEROS TYPOS: "College 'civil war' in PASOK - The internal party roadblocks regarding (the planned revision of) Article 16 (of the Constitution, which allows only the State to establish tertiary education institutions)".

ELEFTHEROTYPIA: "One by one, they're turning their backs on Vourloumis - The once omnipotent OTE (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization) president losing his backing".

ESTIA: "Misadventures with the FYROM issue - The repercussions of the veto (on FYROM membership in NATO) in Bucharest (NATO summit)".

ETHNOS: "The auspicious regime (of 'heavy and hazardous' work) being abolished for 250 specializations".

KATHIMERINI: "Worry in Europe over the record-high inflation - It's breaking the 5 percent mark in Greece".

LOGOS: "Nightmare burning Greece - The country cut in half by the wildfire at Tempi".

NIKI: "350,000 workers left out of the 'heavy and hazardous' work category - The government's 'coup de grace' to the social state".

RIZOSPASTIS: "The two mainstream parties ND and PASOK must suffer a debacle - Rejuvenation of the working class movement".

TA NEA: The trains of the big looting - Mafia-style ring milking OSE (Hellenic Railways Organization)", adding that 14 of the 27 freight cars that became disengaged from an OSE freight train that were rammed by an OSE passenger train, seriously injuring the passenger train conductor, were unregistered, in other words they were unknown to OSE, and added nearly 350 tons of excessive weight to the freight train.

TO VIMA: "156 fires in 24 hours - The capital in a flaming vise - The wildfire at Tempi cut Greece in two".

VRADYNI: "They're burning Greece again - Thousands of stremmas from Pella to the Cyclades islands and Crete".

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