Word: papandreou
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...interview with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn, Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou discussed a number of issues of concern to him. Excerpts...
Late last week, the official Soviet news agency TASS announced an event that may offer further insight into Chernenko's condition: Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou will make an official visit to Moscow in mid-February. Because Papandreou is a head of government rather than a head of state, protocol requires only that he be received by Soviet Premier Nikolai Tikhonov. But Moscow has been courting Papandreou's socialist government assiduously of late, and Chernenko, health permitting, would almost certainly want to take part in Kremlin talks with the Greek visitor...
...months after an Irish Republican Army bomb almost claimed the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an I.R.A. splinter group had vowed to try again. Instead, a different kind of assault came from an unexpected source. As the meeting drew to a close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able to join the Community. Papandreou announced that unless the Community provided a six-year, $3.75 billion program to assist poor farmers in Mediterranean countries, he would veto any entry plan...
...Papandreou campaigned against Greek participation in NATO and the E.G. when he came to power in 1981, and he has been difficult ever since. Community decisions must be unanimous, and Papandreou has used the veto threat while demanding special benefits for Greece. He borrowed the tactic from Thatcher, who stalled the Community for five years while she insisted that Britain deserved a rebate on its Community budget contributions. In Dublin, Papandreou dragged the summit for five hours beyond its scheduled closing to argue that Greek, French and Italian farmers will need massive financial aid to help them adjust...
...Papandreou based his demands for $3.75 billion on a proposal made earlier this year by the European Commission, the Community's Brussels-based executive body, to set up a six-year program to subsidize poor farmers in Mediterranean countries. But with the E.C. budget already strained, the Community leaders had planned to set aside only $37 million in aid to poor farmers next year. Papandreou resisted all efforts to lower his sights, including a $60 million counteroffer from West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl...