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‘Good will and sincerity’
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios (l), the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, and the recently elected Russian Patriarch Kirill... |
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Focus on reforms, not elections
Over the past few weeks, we have seen the government of Costas Karamanlis initiating talks on a variety of issues that are key to the country's future, such as social security reform, labor relations and, more recently, the system of party funding.
These are all positive developments but they will end up meaning very little if the process does not progress from pure dialogue to action very soon - a problem that has too often in the past led to no progress at all. |
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Method or madness?
Greece's policy regarding illegal immigrants used to be very successful: People caught trying to sneak into the country were either forced back across the border or were abandoned to their fate, in the knowledge that the migrants would do all in their power to keep moving on toward more welcoming members of the European Union. Of the hundreds of thousands of people from places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, a small minority chose to seek their fortune in Greece - a country that provided no benefits but did offer more work than what these (mostly) unskilled young men could find at home.
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