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Balloons and their strings...
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Will it be change or inertia in the new year?
As 2007 comes to a close, we are seeing a growing number of signs that the government is hesitating in the implementation of the bold reform program it had set its sights on.
On the social security front, there is already talk of only a small adjustment being made to the system, while the tabling of the new draft law in Parliament has been postponed until the spring.
On the education front, the government has unfortunately failed to clearly convey the message to the university community that it plans to support the immediate implementation of former Education Minister Marietta Giannakou's reform plan. |
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Politics and the final abyss
The violent death of a public figure - by murder, accident or suicide - underlines the oft-forgotten fact that the protagonists of public life, of television clashes and intrigue are made of flesh and bone, of virtues and weaknesses. They are mortal.
The rest of us may see them only on the screen or in photographs - and they themselves may forget it at times - but when they are cut they bleed, when the burdens become too heavy they collapse, when they hit something hard they shatter.
Christos Zachopoulos's leap into the void behind his apartment block last Thursday, two days after he resigned as general secretary of the Culture Ministry, has all the elements of a political thriller... |
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