Athens News Agency: News in English, 08-09-30
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[01] PASOK leader says different growth model needed
[01] PASOK leader says different growth model needed
Main opposition PASOK party leader George Papandreou held talks on
Tuesday evening with Bank of Greece Governor George Provopoulos, at his
office in Parliament.
"Our country and Greek society have been experiencing for some time a
deep political crisis that concerns the economy, the institutions,
transparency, the way of governance and the political system and which
is being paid in full by the middle and low-income earners and the
country's healthy production forces," the PASOK leader said
afterwards.
Papandreou said that the crisis "bears the signature" of the ruling New
Democracy (ND) party and "for this crisis the government is looking
for, as always, an alibi for the failure of its policy, that is
creating indignation among the people and reactions within the ND
party."
Referring to the international financial crisis, Papandreou said "this
also is the result of specific conservative options that are leading to
the submission of public interest to selfish profiteering and
untransparent interests and to the accumulation of power and wealth
without democratic control."
The PASOK leader further said that there was a global demand now for
greater transparency and new rules in markets. He stressed that as
PASOK leader and president of the Socialist International (SI) he has
proposed rules of transparency, control and supervision and policies
for the protection of incomes and of the low-income earners.
Lastly, Papandreou said that policies are necessary for a different
growth model.
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