George Papandreou
The Greek crisis through Schaeuble’s memoirs
His political career lasted over half a century; it was full of crises, scandals, even an assassination attempt. But some of the most dramatic passages in the memoirs of Wolfgang Schaeuble (September 18,1942 - December 26, 2023) concern Greece.
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Papandreou: ND bears responsibility for populism in 2009
New Democracy bears a "huge responsibility" for its populism in undermining his government after Greece's financial woes became known and for prolonging the country's bailout regime, former prime minister George Papandreou said on Friday.
May they pitch in
It took 16 years before Greece could allow the establishment of private universities. We could have had them since 2007 when the then conservative premier Kostas Karamanlis proposed a change to Article 16 of the Constitution, but he was not able to secure the consent of PASOK leader George Papandreou.
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‘Calling Palestinians terrorists has to stop’
It was June 29, 1982 and Andreas Papandreou had just returned from a fraught European Economic Community summit. The Greek prime minister gave his family a detailed account of what was said during the talks with his European counterparts with regard to the war that was raging in the Middle East at the time.
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Androulakis resigning as MEP to run in general elections
The leader of the centre-left opposition party PASOK-Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, initiated on Wednesday the process for his resignation as a member of the European Parliament, in order to run in Greece's upcoming elections.
The move came after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that the elections will be held on May 21.
Former king of Greece Constantine II dies at 82
Constantine, the former and last king of Greece, who won an Olympic gold medal before becoming entangled in his country's volatile politics in the 1960s as king and spent decades in exile, has died. He was 82.
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Loverdos backs Androulakis in second round of KINAL leadership race
Movement for Change (KINAL) MP Andreas Loverdos has announced that he will support MEP Nikos Androulakis in the second round of voting for the party leadership.
Loverdos in the first round on 5 December came one percentage point short of defeating former PM George Papandreou for second place.
KINAL elections – Androulakis and Papandreou to fight for the leadership of the party
The attention is now turned to the second round of the internal party elections for the election of the president of the Movement for Change (KINAL) party as the alliances, that may be created, will play a decisive role to the election of the leader.
Three top candidates neck and neck in Movement for Change party leadership race
A month before the first round of the centre-left Movement for Change (KINAL) party's leadership race, three of the six candidates that are neck and neck are the most likely to make it to the second round, according to a GPO poll published today in the weekend edition of Ta Nea.
The Return of George Papandreou
Now that George Papandreou is returning to the central political scene, the winner of the 2009 elections with a percentage that would be envied by his political opponents (PASOK 43.92% and 160 seats, second party ND with 33.47% and 91 seats), inevitably our mind goes back to that time and the bleak years of the memoranda that followed.
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