tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post1882665212803245429..comments2023-07-17T11:55:51.363+02:00Comments on ObservingGreece: France Will Modernize Greece!kleinguthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12491174042954678023noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-33034257967089060842015-11-27T11:36:58.318+01:002015-11-27T11:36:58.318+01:00Every day, Greece allows thousands of euros to sli...Every day, Greece allows thousands of euros to slip through its fingers as ships anchor illegally in Vatika Bay and pay no port fees. The nearby legitimate port of Kalamata suffers as savvy shipowners anchor their vessels in the once pristine Bay, home of the oldest underwater city in the world Pavlopetri. How can these polluting ships be forced to anchor in a legitimate port and pay the Greek government the fees to which it is entitled?Ships Wreck Vatika Bayhttp://www.neapolisgreece.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-60575546207584316822015-10-29T23:25:58.626+01:002015-10-29T23:25:58.626+01:00The only dates I could see were the date the docum...The only dates I could see were the date the document was signed and one for when Greek administrators would attend French universities. A plan without implementation dates is hardly worth the paper it's written on. <br /><br />Hollande will be out of office in 18 months, I doubt Sarkozy will have much truck with Syriza (assuming they're still in power). Especially if Sarkozy wins off the back of Marine Le Pen supporter votes<br /><br />Greece should be looking to smaller countries that have shown themselves to be nimble at implementing reforms and whose economies have an upward trend - like Estonia and Poland. Rather than behemoths like France with its sagging economy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-59225487535883439122015-10-27T17:05:59.098+01:002015-10-27T17:05:59.098+01:00Greece doesn't need any help or know-how in or...Greece doesn't need any help or know-how in order to modernize it's public administration. If it wanted to, it would have done so a long time ago. It just doesn't want to. So here we are in the year 2015, in the age of automation and electronic communications, doing as much paperwork as ever in modern Greece. Humiliating, unsettling and depressing. No wonder things leave this country: deposits, businesses, workers, you name it. Everybody and everything has every incentive to leave, and Greece will be left with a skeleton of nothing, weeping for it's tragic fate. It will be somebody else's fault, as usual, but the truth is that Greece brought this on herself by following disastrous economic and social policies.Jim Sliphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15325962115410722474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-8370368293787937862015-10-27T14:58:56.937+01:002015-10-27T14:58:56.937+01:00Klaus, since it is restricted to three central fie...Klaus, since it is restricted to three central fields, administration (apparently an important issue), tax and privatization, I wonder. Maybe it is a shortened version?<br /><br />But concerning the first, the administration, and its good sounding phrases like inter-operation, between different sectors of government, as I read it:<br /><br /><i>assess the quality of services provided to citizen including through <b> a more effective one stop shop </b> (KEP) approach; revision of the targeted services.</i><br /><br />What I am missing is 4) the legal context.<br />Διοικητικό Δίκαιο / Administrative Law.<br /><br />What is transparency, accountability, e-government that no doubt is a service or citizen oriented administration worth without a solid legal framework defining both the rights of the administration and the right of the average citizen?<br /><br />Or was the legal field never a problem???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-44269611176839741532015-10-27T10:09:43.552+01:002015-10-27T10:09:43.552+01:00I don't think the Germans ever 'assisted&#...I don't think the Germans ever 'assisted' in these areas. Already under the TFGR, if I recall correctly, it was France which was determined to be best capable of assisting Greece in the areas of public administration, taxes, etc.. Except, I don't think anything ever came out of it.kleinguthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12491174042954678023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-23391764068127866302015-10-27T09:04:28.134+01:002015-10-27T09:04:28.134+01:00Thank You For Your Optimism Mr. Kastner. Positive...Thank You For Your Optimism Mr. Kastner. Positive energy from a person like yourself is most welcome.<br /><br />I am hopeful that being "assisted" by french rather than German greeks will react differently.<br /><br />But as i have said many times the 1st priority are the privatizations. Those few which are ready must be released asap.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br />VAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5882645467378797266.post-352161285787641682015-10-27T09:00:07.533+01:002015-10-27T09:00:07.533+01:00It IS just another document, Dombrovsky has produc...It IS just another document, Dombrovsky has produced a similar one. As long as Syriza MP's and ministers, day after day, tell the media that the bad Europeans are cutting their wages and pensions, it just won't work.<br />It is so much easier just to say OCHI, you don't have to think. In Greece the word signify strength, in other countries it signify weakness. <br />In one of my first jobs my boss told me "we only use the no word in combination with a proposal of what else to do".<br />LennardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com