Serbia and Greece are historic friends and partners and will certainly be strategic partners in the future, President Boris Tadić says. He made the statement on Monday evening after meeting with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou in Belgrade.
Posts Tagged ‘George Papandreou’
Ambassadors’ conference starts in Belgrade
January 4th, 2010 |
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Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić on Monday opened the two-day Ambassadors’ Conference in Belgrade. The guest of honor of the event this year is Greek Prime and Foreign Minister George Papandreou.
Greece’s PM to visit Belgrade on Monday
December 31st, 2009 |
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Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou will visit Belgrade on Monday, January 4, the Greek embassy told Tanjug on Thursday. Papandreou, who is foreign minister as well, will be the honorary speaker at the annual ambassador conference organized by the Serbian Foreign Ministry.
Greek PM: Debt “threat to nation’s sovereignty”
December 10th, 2009 |
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Greek PM George Papandreou yesterday described the country’s burgeoning debt as a potential threat to “national sovereignty”, Ekathimerini reports. In unusually strong statements made during a cabinet meeting, Papandreou described public debt, which is projected to reach 130 percent of gross domestic product next year, as “the biggest threat to national sovereignty since the restoration of democracy,†referring to the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974.
Greece: PM sets out policy program
October 17th, 2009 |
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In his first address as prime minister, George Papandreou set out his government’s aims for the next four years, Ekathimerini reports. The new Greek premier stressed that the poor state of the economy means that his PASOK will have to take some tough measures.
Greece: Balkans in EU by 2014
October 14th, 2009 |
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Greece is proposing a new EU membership road map for the Western Balkans states, which would make them fully-fledged members by 2014.
Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremić told FoNet that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou had outlined the plan to him yesterday. “It was a great honor to be the first representative of a foreign country to speak to the new prime minister of Greece,†he said.
An emphatic win
October 5th, 2009 |
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George Papandreou’s Pasok is victorious in Greece’s election
IN THE run up to the general election in Greece opinion polls showed that the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) was poised for a comeback amid growing popular discontent over the faltering economy. Yet the scale of its landslide victory after the poll on Sunday October 4th has surprised seasoned political observers and delighted its supporters.
George Papandreou, Pasok’s leader, had worried that left-wing voters backing small parties would undermine his chances of winning an absolute majority. Greece’s system of proportional representation could have caused him problems too. But 43.9% of voters backing the party, giving it 160 seats in the 300-member parliament, which means Pasok has a clear run at reform. …
Socialists oust Conservatives in Greece
October 5th, 2009 |
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Greece’s Socialists have won Sunday’s election with enough seats to form a government and oust Costas Karamanlis’ New Democracy Party. George Papandreou will become the new Prime Minister leading his PASOK socialist party.
The centre-left: The challenge of turning malcontents into (sensible) militants
July 30th, 2009 |
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In most of Europe moderate leftists are having a bad recession—but things look more promising for them elsewhere
WHEN George Papandreou, the Greek opposition leader and president of the Socialist International—a global association of centre-left parties—convened the latest of his summer talkfests on the shores of the Aegean, the mood was upbeat. Veterans of the annual gathering said it was the cheeriest they could recall.
But the reasons for the optimism blowing in the pine-scented air were mainly local: after struggling for several years to rally discontent with Greece’s ruling conservatives, Mr Papandreou is now doing well in the opinion polls. He has a good chance, some time over the next year, of becoming prime minister, following in the trail of his liberal grandfather and firebrand father. …