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    Karamanlis has dismissed the PASOK program as "facile promises," advocating a public sector wage freeze, structural reforms and a stricter line on tax evasion instead. "The idea that you're going to solve the euro260 billion debt problem by taxing or freezing pensions, which may bring about euro500 million for this year, is ludicrous ... That's why we absolutely need a stimulus package." A PASOK win Sunday would mark a comeback for a party that made its worst electoral showing in 30 years in the 2007 vote. Full Article at Pakistan News.net
    The idea that you're going to solve the euro260 billion debt problem by taxing or freezing pensions, which may bring about euro500 million for this year, is ludicrous ... That's why we absolutely need a stimulus package.
    – George Andreas Papandreou SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
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Papandreou vows crackdown on Greek corruption
  1. So the question is, do we have the strength and the will to make the strong decisions, the difficult decisions to break away from this tradition? And I think that we've been able to convince a large proportion of Greek people that we do have the will
    SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
  2. It is so pervasive. And yet, even though it was so pervasive, this government did nothing
    – George Andreas Papandreou SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
  3. We're doing well ... We're fighting for a strong majority, but we still have another week to go.
    SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
  4. If we don't have a vibrant economy, we will never deal with the debt. We need to first jump-start the economy for a short period, to give us the breathing-space to make the changes and then move on to a different type of economy within the next few years.
    SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
  5. The question is whether you are part of the problem of corruption or whether you are part of the solution. And the problem with this government is that it became part of the problem ... The high-profile corruption created a very deep sense of mistrust and frustration.
    – George Andreas Papandreou SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
  6. Even though there were corruption issues in the previous government, it was not a corrupt government - it's a very different thing
    – George Andreas Papandreou SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago
  7. It's a question of fighting with old concepts and practices, and cronyism and clientelism and all this which is deeply rooted in Greek politics
    SOURCE: Pakistan News.net 2 months ago

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