George Gilson

  SHOCK and awe was the reaction of most of the press and all of the public to the Draconian economic measures announced by the government on March 3, and strong, protracted labour action is the expected reaction. Five months after he swept to power on a platform of salary raises - with an over 10-percentage-point lead over the conservatives - George Papandreou was forced to

George Gilson

  NEW DEMOCRACY leader Antonis Samaras lashed out at the government, charging that Greece’s latest austerity measures were overly harsh largely because Prime Minister George Papandreou had delayed taking action for too long. 

George Gilson

 ONE THING which Prime Minister George Papandreou and the Obama administration see eye-to-eye on is the utility of a Greek-Turkish dialogue on the Aegean. 

George Gilson

 IN 2004, when he was foreign minister, George Papandreou strongly supported the US-backed Annan Plan, which was rejected by over three-quarters of Greek-Cypriots. 

George Gilson

 OF ALL THE issues that Prime Minister George Papandreou will discuss with US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Fyrom name dispute is the one that Washington would have liked solved long before now. 

George Gilson

  Papandreou and Obama may have much in common personally, but they will soon learn just how closely their national interests intersect