Word: papandreou
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...fury was directed at Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, who two weeks earlier had introduced an economic austerity plan. With its call for a 15% devaluation of the Greek drachma, wage curbs, new taxes, import controls and cuts in public spending, the plan was designed to ease the country's roughly $6 billion budget deficit, its $3 billion balance of payments deficit and its $14 billion foreign debt. Despite the resulting labor confrontation, the government refuses to give way. Since the real impact of the austerity will not begin to be felt for months, Papandreou will probably win this round. Last...
...similar jobs. Since few husbands do their share of the world's child-care and domestic work, women who are employed outside the home put in an exhausting double day. In Europe, a working woman has, on average, less than half the free time her husband enjoys. Said Margaret Papandreou, head of Greece's delegation and wife of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou: "I have, yet to hear a man in the [Greek] Council of Ministers banging his hand on the table and saying, 'We need more child-care centers!' He would if he had the sole responsibility of raising children...
Another Right Turn Europe 's left took a new beating as Greeks voted in a conservative government, ousting George Papandreou's socialist PASOK party, which had dominated Greek politics for more than two decades. Incoming Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, head of the victorious New Democracy party, is the nephew and namesake of a former PM, and was elected on a pledge of more jobs and a crackdown on corruption. The move to the right in Greece is just one of a series of recent snubs to leftist governments. In 2002, voters in France gave conservative President Jacques Chirac the parliamentary...
...fighting corruption and encouraging a participatory democracy. IS ANTI-AMERICANISM STILL THRIVING IN GREECE? It has its peaks and valleys. Obviously, the war in Iraq was one of the peaks. Anti-Americanism [has to do] with U.S. policies and how people assess them. IS IT A BURDEN BEING ANDREAS PAPANDREOU'S SON? I'm proud of my heritage. At the same time, each person carries his or her own identity. So one can be inspired by one's heritage, but at the same time review it. What I've tried to do is say, This is what I believe...
...PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/AP Papandreou waves to supporters...