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Engineers stand...
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Inexcusable errors
With much delay and under pressure from the current political circumstances, the government is trying, 10 months short of the national elections, to create the right environment for the revival of economic activity. This time, it is not aiming at the economy itself, but at the voters instead.
Using the same tools, i.e. the state-owned firms' partial flotation and deregulation, Greece's National Economy Minister Nikos Christodoulakis is trying to collect funds that are to be distributed among the lower-income groups... |
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COMMENTARY |
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The state we’re in
The replacement of Costas Laliotis with Michalis Chrysochoidis as PASOK's general secretary was greeted as an historic and heavily symbolic change. This may indeed be so, in the light of Laliotis's role within PASOK in the post-1974 era. Indisputably, he was one of the figures that shaped PASOK's profile and for many, he still expresses the Socialist party's conscience.
Chrysochoidis envisages a new party that will function along new lines, but it is too early to form a judgment.
This would all be of little interest to the general public had «the party» been clearly demarcated from the State. Over the past two decades, however, the party has grown inextricably intertwined with the State. |
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