The previous prime minister, George Papandreou, mentioned on the event of the fiftieth anniversary of the Postcolonization that “half a century after the restoration of democracy, which got here after the Cyprus tragedy, Hellenism is as soon as once more confronted with main questions regarding each the its course, in addition to its existence within the complicated and extremely aggressive and demanding world of an unsure future”.
He identified the essential achievements of the nation’s fifty years of democratic operation, the place Greek society was interrupted and the Greeks received rights and freedoms, the nation joined the EU and was among the many 25 most essential states on this planet, it gained a job and a voice in our area and within the EU. On the identical time, Cyprus additionally joined the EU.
“The period of euphoria, nevertheless, didn’t go away room for reflections that may give the potential for altering the pathologies that proceed to threaten the nonetheless younger edifice”, mentioned Mr. Papandreou and famous that “those that tried to lift the essential points for reflection and remedy , proceed even right this moment to be the “annoying” and “distracting” components of a crooked and considerably lifeless political-economic system. A system characterised by clientelism and entry to a privileged atmosphere, solely of those that enter into privileged contracts with a trans-institutional system of energy or just settle for to serve it”.
The previous prime minister emphasised that with the completion of half a century because the restoration of the Republic, which got here after a nationwide tragedy, the invasion and occupation of Cyprus by the Turks, the Greeks and the nation are confronted with steady crises and underlined: “It has now it’s time for a nationwide restart, with the intention of adopting a brand new social contract, which is able to embrace all nationwide targets, a holistic transition plan to the inexperienced and digital period, will assure rights and freedoms and promote timeless values, introducing and embedding within the public life equality, equality, meritocracy, transparency and accountability, with a social and participative character.
The time has now come to cease those that proceed to play with the way forward for the Greeks within the absence of the individuals. To those that proceed to acceptable energy as loot to fulfill vested pursuits and the institution.
The frequent targets of Hellenism, in addition to their achievement, can’t however now be the property, the property of the Greeks, if we need to hope for a fruitful and protected transition to a world of nice challenges”.
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