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Is it Greeks who are expecting this change or the international community? Both, I think. First of all, the international community because in a sense in the European Union we have become a test case of both the euro - its survival - and how to deal with this high deficit in...
You are the third Papandreou to hold this office. In style, you are a very different leader from your father and grandfather. Your father was a very populist leader in many ways. Is that difference just reflective of your different personalities? Or is it also that it's a different...
So sometimes people also have unrealistic expectations of what their state or their democracy can provide. The Greeks of today or tomorrow, can they expect the same social support, the same social welfare state that the generations before them expected? Or are Greeks going to have to recalibrate their expectations...
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...
Talking to people on the streets, one thing I heard again and again is that people want to see somebody punished for corruption and tax evasion. What is your response to that? Will people see punishment? I get that all the time. This is the sense that I was telling...