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PASOK leader George Papandreou gestures during his closing speech at the party's national council meeting in Thessaloniki. |
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A tale of waste and corruption
The tale of Olympic Airlines' bankruptcy looks like a minor offense compared to that of the national railway organization OSE, a ticking bomb in the Greek economy, which had amassed a debt of 7 billion euros by 2007 and is expected to owe up to 12.5 billion euros by 2010. Furthermore, according to government officials, the European Union has ordered that OSE's debt be paid from state coffers.
In 2007 alone, the OSE group posted earnings of 100 million euros and losses of 900 million euros. And, as if this weren't enough, it has announced an investment program for infrastructure and network improvements worth 11 billion euros to run over the next 10 years. |
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It’s a jungle out there
The growing desperation with which Athenians watch their Hopefully, teams of social anthropologists are out in our streets, night and day, taking meticulous notes on the behavior of Athenian taxi drivers, working on studies that will shed light on one of the most bizarre groups in modern society and offer suggestions on how to remedy the situation. Because the eclectic horde that drives our yellow fleet is as unique and as fascinating as any undiscovered Amazonian tribe. But unlike primitive tribes that are suddenly thrust into the 21st century, Greek cabbies are a modern tribe that lives by the rules of pre-agricultural society. |
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