Old men forget: Greece. (election of Socialists prime minister Andreas Papandreou)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: October 16, 1993 | Copyright information

Papandreou has overcome his past financial and personal scandals to become prime minister again. He has made a break with his radical past by presenting himself as moderate and pro-European, but some question his cabinet, which consists of old cronies.

IT IS, in many ways, like a journey in time, taking you back to yesterday's Greece. An-dreas Papandreou is prime minister again. The familiar faces, even older now, reappear in his government. At his first cabinet meeting he says that his Socialist party will turn back the privatisation clock to where it stood in the 1980s. The first days ...

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