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Rio-Antirio bridge links with Games
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After the Games have ended
After the Olympic Games, what then? One possibility is that we will for a few years rest on our laurels, having staged a great event - even more so considering the country's size and capacity. And, in fact, everything seems to point to the probability that the Games will be a major success.
Alternatively, the Athens Olympics could mark out a new path for the country - for Athens in particular - both at home and globally. |
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Refounding the state
Before the general elections in March, Costas Karamanlis promised that he would found the state on a new basis. Those who voted his New Democracy party into power are anxious to see the shape that Karamanlis's promise will take.
To some people, «reinstating the state» means making changes in the top echelons of power. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos has already taken a string of measures while the minister of agricultural development and food, Savvas Tsitouridis, announced a similar set of policies.
No one disputes the need for such initiatives, even though the Socialist opposition will most likely try to denounce them as a purge of the civil service and a bid to restore a right-wing state - by now a distant memory. |
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