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EU border control
Following the European Commission proposals yesterday for the creation of an agency to monitor external land as well as sea borders, the establishment of a common EU border control policy has finally entered the final stretch.
The proposed agency would coordinate the national policies of the individual member states and aid those nations that need reinforcement.
This is, no doubt, the most important step ever taken in stemming the tide of illegal migration. The Commission proposals are of particular interest to Greece... |
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Lust for power
Kimon Koulouris, currently fighting the potato price war, was asked if he would like to become premier, press reports said. «Anyone who denies having such ambitions is naive, foolish and stupid,» the deputy minister for development was quoted as saying. Koulouris was probably referring to the 300 MPs who, he believes, clearly took up a political career with an eye on the highest state office. Or perhaps the minister was just speaking for the vast majority of the population who claim they could sort out society's problems if they only had a chance to be prime minister. Whichever is true in this case, Koulouris's response demonstrates that lust for power is, perhaps, the most serious malaise of our political system. |
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