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Naked profiteering on the beach
The beaches on the coastline stretching from Alimos to Varkiza have definitely improved over the past few years.
Indeed, the Psyttaleia waste treatment plant has made waters cleaner. But the private businesses operating beach resorts have also invested in and cared for the coastline, contributing significantly to its improvement. |
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Elusive pot of gold
In his Thursday commentary in the International Herald Tribune, Thomas L. Friedman described how Ireland went «from the sick man of Europe to the rich man in less than a generation.» Ireland's per capita gross domestic product now towers above that of Germany, France and Britain.
According to Friedman, Ireland's transformation was due to two factors: First, the government invested heavily in education, which received the lion's share of EU funds.
Second, the government, political parties, unions and industrialists all agreed on a program of economic reform, slashing corporate taxes and luring foreign investment.
«Greece will never be Ireland,» a stubborn Costas Simitis, Greece's former premier, repeatedly said. The huge public debt bequeathed by his Socialist governments ensured it wouldn't. |
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