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On 14 November, Greece’s new Prime Minister Lucas Papademos outlined his policies to the Greek parliament in an eagerly awaited speech which To Ethnosenthusiastically reports was “a first step forward with honest words for everyone.” For the Athens daily, “Lukas Papademos went some way towards redeeming the situation, in the wake of the bombs launched by the German Chancellor and ironic remarks by the French President,” even if “his speech aimed to reassure our European partners and dispel any illusions within the country.”
For rival daily Eleftherotypia, on the other hand, the policy announced by Papademos “is the same one followed by Papandreou.” The centre-left daily, which deplores “a carbon copy” of previous policies, notes the increasingly oppressive social climate which will soon be marked by the redundancy of 30,000 civil servants, to be laid off by the end of December. “The tone is different, with an acknowledgement of the mistakes of the previous administration and mention of a policy for recovery, but this once again raises the dilemma of keeping the country in the eurozone!” exclaims the newspaper.
