George Papandreou
George Papandreou
George Jeffrey Papandreou, commonly anglicised to George and shortened to Giorgosin Greek, is a Greek politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece from 2009 to 2011...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 June 1952
CitySaint Paul, MN
George Papandreou quotes about
country together world
If you put all the European countries together, we are the biggest economy in the world.
said take-me i-can
I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.
roller-coaster coasters up-and-down
Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.
dirty thinking games
There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.
difficult odyssey road
We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.
economic europe european fact fund governance guarantees monetary opportunity shows strength
The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds, about guarantees for countries, about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.
challenges changes country equitable great meet political
We are a country with great potential. We have the political will to make deep changes in a just and equitable way, to put our country back on a development path, to meet the challenges of a new world.
choose cliff europe fallen greece labor market program somewhere sure unemployed
The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job.
deeper extremism targeting
We have a rise of extremism because we need to give a sense that we are targeting some of the deeper problems in Greece, the injustices.