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Greek Cypriots celebrated the visit of the Olympic Torch Relay...
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Final settlement
The pre-electoral promise to give permanent posts to short-term contract workers, all short-term contract workers, has raised expectations that in many cases are unjustifiable, or even irrational.
Anybody with some kind of work contract with the civil service and the state sector as a whole now considers himself or herself as a contract worker who will be given a post - even if no permanent one exists.
This attitude has deep roots in a society where the notion has been cultivated, over decades, that the state is the great job provider, the patron and protector... |
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Thucydides in exile
We remember well from our schooldays the definition of Athenian democracy which Thucydides attributed to Pericles: «We indeed live in a political system which does not seek to copy the laws of others; rather it is we who set an example for others to follow. Our political system is called a democracy because the state government is not in the hands of the few, but of the many.»
This definition, the heritage of European and Western civilization generally, had been proposed for the draft Constitution of the European Union by the former president of France, Valery Giscard d'Estaing. |
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