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Islamic mourning period of Ashura...
A Pakistani Shiite flagellates himself in Piraeus yesterday... |
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No time to waste for newcomers
Yesterday, the country's conservative prime minister, Costas Karamanlis, showed that he possesses both reflexes and political courage by ousting from his Cabinet those who had clearly failed in their respective sectors, as well as those who had been involved in various scandals.
At the same time, the New Democracy leader did not succumb to pressure from the ministers who were trying to impose their own conditions or trying to perpetuate the concept of unaccountability for their own people. |
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2008: The end of illusions
Even before the year started, it was evident that 2008 would be difficult, mainly because of the storm clouds gathering on the horizon as the housing market crashed in the United States. At the time, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and his minister for the economy, Giorgos Alogoskoufis, were adamant that the Greek economy was «armor-plated.» The fortifications, if they did exist, were useless: The crisis was here even before the storm crossed the Atlantic. |
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