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But in Norway or Sweden, people have faith in the state, they have faith that the state functions. How do rebuild that faith - or perhaps build it in the first place. It's easy to say you want to end corruption, but how do you actually change that political culture...
Also, decentralizing this huge central government to regional and local government so that services are provided at a local level, but decisions are also made a local level, which makes it more accountable. When I was Minister of Education, for example, I would sign the leave of absence of the...
Now it's the turn of George, Andreas' eldest son. Papandreou, 57, who was elected Prime Minister last October, has spent most of his first six months in office keeping Greece from bankruptcy and forcing through reforms. In the cavernous, colonnaded rooms of Maximos Mansion, where he met TIME on...
But is Papandreou the man to haul Greece - and PASOK - into the 21st century? He may carry a famous political name, but Papandreou is not cut from the same cloth as most Greek politicians. Trim and fit, the U.S.-born Prime Minister (his mother, Margaret, is from Illinois) lived much...
Greeks describe their new Prime Minister with words like decent or humane. In the brutal world of Greek politics, though, those aren't always compliments. Despite PASOK's overwhelming victory last year, Papandreou's elevation owed much to the self-destruction of the governing center-right New Democracy Party. Opponents...