Prime Minister George Papandreou, speaking in Parliament on Monday during an off-the-agenda discussion on Greek citizenship for foreigners and immigration policy, taking place at the initiative of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LA.OS) party, defended the government's decision to grant Greek citizenship to legal, as he stressed, immigrants. He made a clear distinction between immigration policy and citizenship policy, invoking "humanity and realism".
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis Samaras, speaking during an off-the-agenda debate in Parliament on immigration policy and the granting of citizenship on Monday, said that his party will vote against the PASOK government's bill on citizenship for immigrants and will also abolish it when it comes to power.
The Voras and Rodopi mountain ranges have every reason to pride themselves on their magnificant fauna and flora, including forests of the rare Balkans-endemic five-needle white pine tree Pinus Peuce (Molika Pine), two of the just 17 such forests in the entire Balkans.The molika pine is an autochthonous taxa of five-needle pine originating from the Tertiary Period, and Mt. Voras, the third highest mountain in Greece, has relics of an ancient Pinus peuce forest dating back to the Ice Age, while another remarkable feature are several expanses of aged chestnut woods
Inflation in Greece slowed to 2.4 percent in January from 2.6 percent in December 2009, but remained above a 1.8 pct reading in Jan. 2009
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Serres prefecture farmers on Tuesday remained at their roadblocks on the road access to the Promachonas border post preventing trucks
A strike by the civil servants union ADEDY on Wednesday is expected to seriously disrupt air transport
Communist Party of Greece leader Aleka Papariga on Monday during a discussion on immigration policy, said "no" to government's draft law
Equity prices were rising at the opening of trade on Tuesday on the ASE, with the basic share price index up 2.56%, standing at 1,852.62 pts
The government's draft bill on migrants, the changes in taxation and social security, the economy and planned labour mobilisations
