OPINION

Changes and goals for the government

As Costas Karamanlis’s government approaches the middle of its four-year term, it has concentrated all its strength on the effort to tackle the country’s major fiscal problem, which it inherited from previous successive administrations of the Socialists. It appears that this difficult undertaking will eventually bear fruit; indeed, the government is optimistic that, by the beginning of next year, the European Commission will end its surveillance of our national economy. In view of this, the government now has the chance to intensify its efforts toward exercising constructive policies in other key sectors – specifically, to press on with economic reforms, restructure its administration and upgrade the health and education sectors. It is the government’s obligation to strive unremittingly to crack down on corruption in the public sector – where consciences are being perverted, dishonorable individuals are thriving and precious state funds are being frittered away. The imminent Cabinet reshuffle should therefore be carried out in such a way as to guarantee that the new one is perfectly capable of meeting these obligations. In view of this, the prime minister should ignore the personal ambitions of party cadres and instead choose able individuals who are intent on channeling their energies into the government’s work in the second half of its term.

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