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Lieutenant-General Nikolaos Douvas...
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Discomfiture
"Discomfiture» became a vogue term in our political vocabulary when Socialist leader George Papandreou used it to criticize the stance of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis during the Buergenstock talks on Cyprus. However, the word seems better suited to PASOK. There is, after all, an objective reason for this. Any party that loses its grip on power in a landslide defeat naturally finds itself in a very difficult position. In the early months, there is little room for opposition, if any at all. |
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Corrupt TV
Greece is second only to Spain in the number of regional and local television stations, a University of Athens survey revealed yesterday. In Spain, there is one channel for every 50,000 people, while in Greece there is one for every 70,000. Notably, the ratio is one for every million people in the Netherlands, 1.2 million in Belgium, 2.3 million in France and 2.8 million in Germany.
So far, we have experienced the inflation in national television channels - a problem that should have been resolved by market forces. Non-viable stations would close down if operation was based... |
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