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...today's Europe, because it betrays a biased viewpoint that suggests success is measured in aspirations to lead the world. Europe - a continental power of nations with a great variety of cultures in a relatively small area - has managed to reduce prejudice derived from exaggerated nationalism and small-state policies on its way to prosperity and peace, and all this after suffering incredible violence and distress through its long history. I agree with Robinson that Europe is a remarkable place to live. Rainer E. Becker, WILHELMSHAVEN, GERMANY
...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? We want to make sure the social system survives. We have to become competitive. Greece also has both negatives, but also a positive on this because our social system is not well organized, there's a lot of waste. So in cutting down the waste, I think we can modernize...
...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? The first thing is to realize that it exists as a problem and that we've accomplished already. People are saying: 'we do need this change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption.' How do you do that? I think here we don't have...
...would have to sign that. This is crazy. This is micromanagement. But the reason that existed was that one hand people thought that was control, and that comes from a legacy of authoritarianism and dictatorship and so on, so a lot of power at the center of the state. But it also becomes easily clientelistic. You have to come to me for the smallest of favors. And then I've got your vote. And then I've been able to influence you. That's what we're changing...
...dirty." Greeks, Papandreou argues, want to deal with the rot eroding their society. "The first thing is to realize [corruption] exists as a problem, and that we've already accomplished," he says. "Already people are saying we do need a change. We do want to have a different state. We do want to fight corruption...