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More checks and balances. Our budget is going to be under the scrutiny of the parliament, but also an independent body. More meritocracy in the public service. We now have a system where people will be chosen only on a meritocratic basis, not a clientelistic basis. This is slowly changing...
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...
Is the worst over for Greece? I think the worst is over for the crisis that we've had, the sort of peak of the crisis. But there's a lot of work to be done, difficult work. The pain is still there because the cuts, the wage cuts, the...
To get there, Papandreou knows he will have to take on the culture of entitlement and graft that has festered on the left - and his own party. "The first thing we have to do is change ourselves," he says he told his socialist PASOK party after he took over its...
Papandreou is most animated talking not economics, but human rights and the environment. A few days ago, after returning from Brussels with a deal that will see the European Union bail Greece out if everything else fails, he relaxed with a long bike ride. "He doesn't have the ability...