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Topic: George Andreas Papandreou


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  George Andreas Papandreou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Papandreou was born in St Paul, Minnesota, in the United States, where his father, Andreas Papandreou, then held a university post.
Papandreou's educational career reflected the movements of his father, who had been exiled from Greece for political reasons in 1939 and did not return until 1959.
Papandreou was elected to the Greek Parliament in 1981 the year his father became Prime Minister, as an MP for the constituency of Achaea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Papandreou,_junior   (856 words)

  
 Andreas Papandreou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Papandreou was born in Chios, Greece, the son of the leading Greek Liberal politician George Papandreou.
Papandreou was easily re-elected in 1985 with 46%, but in 1989 the elections produced a deadlock, which led to a prolonged political crisis.
Papandreou's son, George Papandreou, was elected leader of PASOK in February 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andreas_Papandreou   (1243 words)

  
 BookRags: Andreas Papandreou Biography
Papandreou was born on February 5, 1919, on the island of Chios.
Papandreou's victory was received as a breath of fresh air, and the confidence in his leadership was not different from that inspired by John F. Kennedy in the United States 20 years earlier.
In 1992 Papandreou was cleared of all connections to the Crete Bank financial scandal, whereupon he called for immediate general elections with the charge that the New Democratics' 1990 victory was achieved as the result of false accusations.
www.bookrags.com /biography/andreas-papandreou   (1594 words)

  
 Greece 1964-1974 KH
What concerned the opponents of George Papandreou most about him was his son Andreas Papandreou, who had been head of the economics department at the University of California at Berkeley and a minister in his father's cabinet, was destined for a leading role m the new government.
Andreas Papandreou's bark was worse than his bite, as his later presidency was to amply demonstrate.
When Andreas Papandreou assumed his ministerial duties in 1964 he was shocked to discover what was becoming a fact of life for every techno-industrial state in the world: an intelligence service gone wild, a shadow government with powers beyond the control of the nation's nominal leaders.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Blum/Greece_KH.html   (2313 words)

  
 George Papandreou
George Papandreou (in Greek Georgios Papandreou or Γεώργιος Παπανδρέου) (18 February 1888 - 1 November 1968) was a Greek politician.
Papandreou spent the rest of the 1950s in opposition, while the conservatives were in the ascendant and the left was repressed by the royalist controlled armed forces.
George Papandreou and Eleftherios Venizelos on the Acropolis
www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Portraits/GeorgePapandreouSenior.html   (618 words)

  
 Papandreou, George - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
PAPANDREOU, GEORGE [Papandreou, George] päand180;pendrā´oo, 1888-1968, Greek political leader, father of Andreas Papandreou and grandfather of George Papandreou (1952-).
Papandreou was active in the Greek resistance in World War II and headed (1944-45) the government-in-exile.
George A. Papandreou Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/papandrg1.asp   (308 words)

  
 Andreas Papandreou Biography
Papandreou was easily re-elected in 1985, but in 1989 the elections produced a deadlock, which led to a prolonged political crisis.
Papandreou confounded his critics by winning elections in October 1993, mainly by exploiting Greek nationalist sentiment over the Macedonia issue.
Papandreou was hospitalised with advanced heart disease and kidney failure in November 1995, and finally retired from office on 21 March 1996.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Papandreou_Andreas.html   (898 words)

  
 Today's Home News
The PASOK leader described Andreas Papandreou as a man who, with his political action, marked an entire era of democratic struggles, and a man who, with his boldness, changed the course of Greece's foreign policy and its position in the Balkans, Europe and the world.
Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou said, was the man who liberated the "forgotten Greece" and the immense strength it had locked up inside it, formulated a new unity based on equality, justice, the just state, solidarity, and the just distribution of wealth, but above all, he was "a human being, with a capital H".
George Papandreou also spoke of his father's political activities, the battles he waged within the European Union and also for the country's position in the EU (then the European Community) with the benefits of the Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, the Cohesion Funds and the Community Support Framework.
www.ana.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=4347552&maindocimg=4340827&service=10   (343 words)

  
 George Papandreou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Andreas was sent into exile and Georgios was under house arrest until his death in 1968 when a million people marched in his funeral in defiance of the military dictatorship.
His son Andreas Papandreou formed the PASOK party and was PM for most of the eigthties and the beginning of the nineties.
Papandreou's grandson George became the leader of PASOK in 2004 and is known as a progressive and popular leader in Greece.
www.ahistoryofgreece.com /biography/papandreou.htm   (383 words)

  
 George Papandreau
George Papandreou was born on June 26, 1952, in the US state of Minnesota.
His father, Andreas Papandreou, was arrested in 1967 and imprisoned by the military dictatorship ruling Greece at the time.
George Papandreou proves that America, is still the land of opportunity our ancestors believed in, and if you go to school, are honest and work hard one day you may be prime minister of Greece.
www.ahistoryofgreece.com /biography/georgepapandreou.htm   (598 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Profile: George Papandreou
The "revolutionary" Mr Papandreou is said to be a calm, thoughtful and diplomatic politician in contrast to the flamboyant personalities of his father Andreas and grandfather George.
His son Andreas was exiled from Greece in 1939 and went to the United States, where Mr Papandreou was born to an American mother in 1952.
Mr Papandreou rose through the ranks of Pasok and was elected to parliament in 1981, the same year his father was elected prime minister.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3472229.stm   (461 words)

  
 Policy Network - George Papandreou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Papandreou took over the PASOK leadership at a challenging time for the party, a few months prior to the March 2004 national elections.
George followed suit soon after his arrival in Greece in 1974, when he joined PASOK, the party founded by his father, which has long represented democratic values in Greece.
Papandreou rose fast in PASOK’s ranks, and by 1981 he was elected to the Parliament.
www.policy-network.net /php/article.php?sid=8&aid=544   (700 words)

  
 Greek News - Papandreou Starts Making a Difference for PASOK
Giorgos Papandreou said that the people share a big hope for a new Greece, in statements he made en route to the city of Patras where he was warmly received by local people in the regions of Achaia and Corinth in the Peloponesse, southern Greece.
George Papandreou made an appeal to the people especially, the young to participate in a new creative struggle to meet the challenges of the times and contribute to the creation of the new Greece.
Papandreou stated that he visited the region to be inspired for the new beginning, which is based on the work of Andreas Papandreou and Kostas Simitis.
www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=870   (716 words)

  
 Cyprus
Andreas Papandreou, who had been head of the economics department at the University of California at Berkeley and a minister in his father's cabinet, was destined for a leading role in the new government.
Andreas Papandreou's bark was worse than his bite, as his later presidency was to simply demonstrate.
Andreas demanded that the American leave his office, which he did, but not before warning that "there would be consequences".
www.greece.org /cyprus/Takism5.htm   (3486 words)

  
 ekathimerini.com | Papandreou steps up
George Papandreou is the grandson and son of prime ministers.
Foreign Minister George Papandreou yesterday announced that he will seek the presidency of the ruling PASOK party, in a vote that will be held on February 8, ahead of the March 7 national elections.
Papandreou was the only member to announce his candidacy for the post of chairman, doing so to reporters after the meeting.
www.ekathimerini.com /4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_09/01/2004_38217   (484 words)

  
 ANDREAS PAPANDREOU DIES
Papandreou was planning to address the congress and, up to one hour prior to his death, was adding the final touches on his speech.
Papandreou was born at the island of Chios in 1919, son of later prime minister George Papandreou and Sophia Meneiko.
Andreas Papandreou's last rhetoric remained unfinished in the hands of his closest associates, who were with him up until one hour prior to his death during today's early morning hours.
www.btinternet.com /~argyros.argyrou/obit.htm   (1949 words)

  
 AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE A. PAPANDREOU 12.7.99
Papandreou said that he is confident about the outcome of the next national elections (regardless of when they take place), as long as the PASOK government begins to engage directly with Greek citizens.
PAPANDREOU: The party was indeed founded at a specific time by a specific individual - but Andreas Papandreou himself reformed the party he founded on several occasions.
Papandreou, many people claim that your relations with the Prime Minister have cooled since your recent interview [with To Vima] in which you indirectly but clearly alluded to your ambition to become Prime Minister.
www.hri.org /MFA/gpap/july99/SynEthnos12799English.html   (1922 words)

  
 Rival Political Dynasties Face Off in Greek Election
Papandreou, whose father founded the Socialist Party and whose grandfather was a president and two-time prime minister, was born in the United States to an American mother, schooled at Amherst and speaks accented Greek.
Papandreou, a popular, charismatic foreign minister for the past five years, was placed at the head of the party last month by Prime Minister Costas Simitis, who said he wanted to renew the Socialists’ fortunes.
As foreign minister, Papandreou is credited with improving ties with Turkey, pushing forward a solution to the conflict that divides the island of Cyprus between Greek and Turkish proxies, and softening the anti-American rhetoric for which his father was famous.
www.arabnews.com /?page=9§ion=0&article=40723&d=7&m=3&y=2004&pix=community.jpg&category=Features   (859 words)

  
 Andreas Georgios Papandreou
George Papandreou, the father of Andreas Papandreou as a young man (seated left), and his wife, Sofia Mineyko (seated right), with other members of the Mineyko family, about 1918
Papandreou was hospitalised with advanced heart disease and kidney failure in November 1995, and finally retired from office on January 16, 1996.
His successor in office, Costas Simitis, abandoned many of his policies, but was seen by many as a dull technocrat in comparison.
www.mlahanas.de /Greece/History/Portraits/AndreasPapandreou.html   (1147 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Papandreou woos Greek socialists
Mr Papandreou, 51, is expected to be the only candidate when the party chooses a leader on 6 February.
But Mr Papandreou, whose father Andreas and grandfather George were both prime ministers, is a popular figure in Greek politics.
Mr Simitis, who has shown his support for Mr Papandreou, said the new leader would be elected by hundreds of thousands of grassroots members instead of the 4,000 top officials who have made the decision in the past.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3378771.stm   (393 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Greek opposition's Papandreou recovering -doctors
ATHENS – Greek socialist opposition leader George Papandreou was recovering in hospital on Tuesday from a respiratory infection doctors said was receding.
Papandreou, 52, a former Greek foreign minister, was admitted to hospital in Athens on Monday with a high temperature and doctors diagnosed a mild form of pneumonia.
Papandreou has no known health problems but he lost considerable weight during the election campaign.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040803-0515-greece-papandreou.html   (223 words)

  
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A political thriller based on the 1963 killing of liberal Greek senator and peace activist Gregorios Lambrakis, who shook the stability of the government in power.
This brought misery to Greece: repression of civil liberties, dissolution of political parties, the establishment of special military courts, and the imprisonment or exile to remote Greek islands of several thousand suspected political opponents.
George Andreas Papandreou succeeded him as PASOK leader.
www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/z.html   (633 words)

  
 George Papandreou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Papandreou, senior, Giorgos Papandreou (1888-1968) Three time Prime Minister of Greece (1944-1945; 1963; 1964-1965)
George Andreas Papandreou, (1952-), grandson of George Papandreou, senior, former Foreign Minister of Greece from 1999 till 2004.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Papandreou   (102 words)

  
 Arghyris Arghyrou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
            Andreas Papandreou was elected Prime Minister in 1981 as the leader of the social democratic party PASOK (Pan Hellenic Socialist Party).
Papandreou belongs to the generation of politicians who wanted to institute social democratic systems, critical of both capitalism and Soviet communism, albeit more critical of the former.
            Papandreou’s first speech upon his return to Greece in September 3 1974, the day PASOK was created, set the basic principles of the party and captures the essence of his rhetoric in the years to come, albeit in a less polemical style.
www.isanet.org /noarchive/arghyris.html   (9300 words)

  
 WPJ Spring 2004 -George Papandreou’s Honorable Legacy by Nicholas X. Rizopoulos
By way of contrast, the younger George Papandreou (whose mother, like Churchill’s, was American) has always behaved in a low-key fashion, with a personal lifestyle (unlike his father’s or grandfather’s) unmarred by sexual or other scandals.
In the event, as foreign minister, Papandreou never attempted to upstage his prime minister, Costas Simitis (who had succeeded Andreas Papandreou, both as premier and party chairman, in 1996).
Papandreou simply never wavered from his principal goal, which was to try to mend Greco-Turkish fences once and for all, beginning in Cyprus.
www.worldpolicy.org /journal/articles/wpj04-1/rizopoulos.htm   (1566 words)

  
 hellenic
There is correspondence (1981-1985), in English and Greek, of Papandreou and her husband, Andreas Papandreou, prime minister of Greece (1981-1989), concerning personal and business matters, and some affairs of state.
Papandreou was head of the Greek government's delegation to this conference, and the papers include documents from the preparation meetings, statements of the member-states, resolutions, cassette tapes of interviews, speeches, American press releases, mass media, and general publications.
George Seferis' Photographs of Cyprus consists of 138 photographs of Cyprus taken by Seferis, the Greek poet and 1963 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
www.princeton.edu /~rlindau/hellweb.htm   (3185 words)

  
 goGREECE.com - Daily News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
A memorial service was held at the first cemetery in Athens at noon on Wednesday to mark the ninth anniversary of the death of former prime minister and main opposition PASOK party founder Andreas Papandreou.
PASOK leader and son of Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou, said it was a day of sorrow, but also of gathering and communication between the cadres, friends and associates of his father, whom he remembers for his affection, love, friendship, humor and humanity.
Dimitra Papandreou, the widow of Andreas Papandreou, also attended the event and laid a bouquet of white roses on his tomb at the end of the memorial service.
www.gogreece.com /news/headlines/story.html?id=35284   (165 words)

  
 Documents 218-242
Papandreou could assure King that, if there were elections and he came to power, he would appoint as DefMin someone in whom both had confidence.
Andreas expressed his admiration for Turkish diplomacy as the way for a small country to project its views in the councils of powers.
For the first time in my discussions with George Papandreou, he ruled out the possibility of an interim ERE government and emphasized that only a "service government" of non-political personalities would be acceptable.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ho/frus/johnsonlb/xvi/4766.htm   (18938 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Greek Socialists tap Papandreou   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Socialist voters across Greece cast symbolic ballots Sunday to hand the party's leadership to Foreign Minister George Papandreou -- the son of the party's founder and considered its best hope to rally supporters before March elections.
The voting confirmed the pre-scripted power transfer to Papandreou, 51, who was the lone candidate to take over the party founded by his late father, Andreas, in 1974.
His father served as premier three times and his grandfather, George, was premier in the 1960s and was regarded as one of the country's most influential statesmen.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/02/08/greek_socialists_tap_papandreou   (344 words)

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