Giorgos Papandreou (2011)
Giorgos A. Papandreou ( Greek Γιώργος Α. Παπανδρέου , actually Georgios Γεώργιος, born June 16, 1952 in St. Paul , Minnesota ) is a Greek politician . He was Foreign Minister of Greece from February 1999 to 2004 ( Cabinet Simitis II and III ). From February 2004 to March 2012 he was chairman of the Panellinio Sosialistiko Kinima (PASOK) party. In October 2009, following an election victory , he replaced the previous incumbent Kostas Karamanlis as Prime Minister of Greece and was also Foreign Minister until September 2010. On November 9, 2011, he resigned from his post as Prime Minister. Papandreou has been chairman of the Socialist International since January 2006 .
Life
Papandreou is the grandson of Georgios Papandreou and son of Andreas Papandreou , both former Prime Ministers. He is also the great-grandson of Zygmunt Mineyko , a Polish-Greek engineer and politician. He attended Stockholm University from 1972 to 1973 and Amherst College in the United States from 1975 to 1979, and received a bachelor's degree in sociology . Further studies with a degree in sociology and development have taken place at the London School of Economics and Political Science .
Political career
In 1984 Papandreou was elected to the central committee of the social democratic party PASOK . From 1981 to 1993 Papandreou was a member of parliament for PASOK in the Achaia constituency . He has taken on various functions in the Greek Parliament, including chairing the Parliamentary Committee on Education, the Committee on Culture and Education, and Deputy Chairman of the multi-party committee for public radio in Greece. From 1987 to 1988 he was a member of the Executive Committee of PASOK and since 1990 Secretary of the Greek Diaspora. Papandreou was a member of various political committees of PASOK, such as Secretary of the Committee for Agricultural Cooperatives, Deputy Secretary in the Organizing Committee of PASOK, Member of the Committee on International Relations and Secretary of the Committee on Publications and Seminars.
From 1985 to 1987 he was State Secretary for Cultural Affairs, including responsibility for adult education and youth affairs, from June 1988 to July 1989 he was appointed Minister for Education and Religious Affairs and was at the same time government coordinator for Athens' application for the 1996 Summer Olympics . From 1992 to 1993 he was a fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University , USA.
Konstantinos Simitis appointed him Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece in October 1996 and Foreign Minister in February 1999. He held this office until the parliamentary election in March 2004. Since February 8, 2004, Giorgios Papandreou was chairman of PASOK. As the top candidate in the parliamentary elections on March 7, 2004 , he was unable to build on the term of office of his predecessor as party chairman Kostas Simitis as prime minister. Konstantinos Karamanlis from the liberal-conservative Nea Dimokratia was the winner and the new head of government .
On January 30, 2006, Papandreou was elected President of the Socialist International .
In the parliamentary election on September 16, 2007 he ran again as a candidate for the office of Prime Minister for PASOK against the ruling Konstantinos Karamanlis, but was defeated in this election. After the defeat in the 2007 parliamentary election, Papandreou faced a vote on November 11, 2007 among the members and supporters of PASOK on the party leadership. 974,666 people were eligible to vote for this election. Of these, 769,156 (78.9%) took part. He was confirmed as chairman in the first ballot against two competitors, Evangelos Venizelos and Kostas Skandalidis, with a share of the vote of 55.91%.
Term of office as Prime Minister
Swearing in as Prime Minister on October 6, 2009
Papandreou with cabinet on October 7, 2009
In the parliamentary election on October 4, 2009 , PASOK won the absolute majority of the parliamentary seats with a 43.9 percent share of the vote. Two days later, Papandreou was sworn in as the new Prime Minister. He also took over the Foreign Ministry in his government until September 7, 2010.
The beginning of his term of office was overshadowed by the emerging sovereign debt crisis . In a televised address in early February 2010, Papandreou announced further austerity measures to avoid national bankruptcy . Since then, the Papandreou government has increased taxes in several steps and decided to take drastic austerity measures. On the part of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Union (EU) and the European Central Bank (ECB), Greece was given the prospect of a loan package of over 110 billion euros. Several payments from this aid package have been sent to Greece. In mid-June 2011, Papandreou reshuffled his government under the pressure of massive protests. He replaced his finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou with the previous defense minister, Evangelos Venizelos , after he was unable to win Loukas Papadimos - economist and vice-president of the European Central Bank ( ECB ) from 2002 to 2010 - for this office.
On June 19, 2011, Papandreou put the vote of confidence in parliament and announced a referendum for the autumn in which the Greek citizens should decide on reforms to “modernize the state” . The vote on the vote of confidence on the night of June 22nd was won by Papandreou's government and the majority of MPs signaled their agreement to new austerity targets from the EU and the IMF . All 155 PASOK MPs voted for the government . 143 parliamentarians voted against; two independent MPs were absent.
A referendum surprisingly announced by Papandreou at the beginning of November on the austerity measures, which were based on the resolutions of the previous Euro Summit in Brussels on aid to Greece (see EFSF ), said Papandreou after massive domestic and foreign policy criticism and then successfully faced another vote of confidence . On November 6, 2011 it was announced that the Greek cabinet would be restructured in the wake of the euro crisis, as a result of which Papandreous is to give up his office. On November 9, 2011, he officially announced his resignation. On November 11, 2011, Loukas Papadimos succeeded him as Prime Minister.
On March 18, 2012, he was replaced by Evangelos Venizelos as chairman of PASOK.
Further political career
After his end at the head of the government and party, Papandreou remained chairman of the Socialist International and also retained his parliamentary mandate after the two elections in 2012 . Otherwise he did not appear politically until the end of 2014. After the presidential election failed on December 29, 2014 and new elections were set for January 25, 2015 , he announced his intention to found a new party on January 2. The party called Kinima Dimokraton Sosialiston (Κίνημα Δημοκρατών Σοσιαλιστών) was founded the following day in the auditorium of the Benaki Museum . However, the new party failed to make the leap over the three percent hurdle. In March 2018, she joined forces with Papandreou's former PASOK party to form Kinima Allagis (KINAL; Movement for Change).
Honor
Papandreou with his wife at the Quadriga Awards
On the Day of German Unity 2010, Papandreou was honored with the Quadriga Prize for his “Power of Truthfulness”. Josef Ackermann gave the laudation .
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ "A." does not stand for a first or middle name , but is the abbreviation of the patronymic "Andrea"
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↑ Papandreou sworn in as the new Prime Minister , in: Der Standard , October 6, 2009 (accessed October 6, 2009).
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^ Prime Minister Papandreou also Foreign Minister , in: Der Standard , October 7, 2009
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↑ Displeasure in Greece about the austerity program ( Memento from August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), in: Tagesschau.de , August 28, 2010 (accessed September 20, 2010)
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↑ zeit.de November 7, 2011 (Gerd Höhler): [1]
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↑ Athens: Papandreou government survives vote of confidence , on: focus.de , June 22, 2011 (accessed June 22, 2011)
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↑ Greek Prime Minister resigns from office. SPIEGEL ONLINE, November 6, 2011, accessed November 6, 2011 .
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↑ Papandreou goes online without a successor , November 9, 2011
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↑ FAZ.net
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↑ website
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↑ Quadriga prizes awarded in Berlin: Papandreou promises revolution , swr.de, October 4, 2010.
Prime Minister: Andreas Papandreou
Deputy Prime Minister: Ioannis Charalambopoulos (July 26, 1985 - November 18, 1988) , Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas (September 23, 1987 - November 18, 1988)
Minister:
Foreign Minister: Ioannis Charalambopoulos from July 26, 1985: Karolos Papoulias | Defense Minister: Andreas Papandreou from April 25, 1986: Ioannis Charalambopoulos
Minister to the Prime Minister: Apostolos Lazaris from July 26, 1985: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos from February 5, 1987: Apostolos Kaklamanis from November 18, 1988: Menios Koutsogiorgas from March 17, 1989: Anastasios Peponis
Minister of Economic Affairs: Gerasimos Arsenis from July 26, 1985: Konstantinos Simitis from November 27, 1987: Panagiotis Roumeliotis
Minister of Finance: Gerasimos Arsenis (from July 26, 1985): Dimitrios Tsovolas
Minister of the Interior: Menios Koutsogiorgas from February 5, 1987: Emmanouil Papastefanakis from May 23 September 1987: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos from June 2, 1989: Panagiotis Markopoulos | Minister for Public Order: Anastasios Tsouras from April 25, 1986: Andonis Drosogiannis from June 22, 1988: Anastasios Sechiotis
from November 18, 1988: Georgios Petsos from March 17, 1989: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos from June 2, 1989: Panagiotis Markopoulos
Minister of Culture : Melina Mercouri | Agriculture Minister: Konstantinos Simitis from July 26, 1985: Ioannis Pottakis
Minister of Justice: Miltiadis Papaioannou from July 26, 1985: Georgios Mangakis from April 25, 1986: Apostolos Kaklamanis from February 5, 1987: Eleftherios Verivakis from September 23, 1987: Menios Koutsogiorgas from 18 April 1986: November 1988: Vasilios Rotis from March 17, 1989: Ioannis Skoularikis from June 2, 1989: Konstantinos Stamatis
Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs: Apostolos Kaklamanis from April 25, 1986: Andonis Tritsis from May 9, 1988: Apostolos Kaklamanis from May 22 , 1986 June 1988: Giorgos A. Papandreou from September 9, 1988: Charis Kastanidis
Minister of Labor: from July 26, 1985: Evangelos Giannopoulos from October 31, 1986: Konstantinos Papanagiotou from September 23, 1987: Georgios Gennimatas
Minister of Industry: (from July 26, 1986) July 1985): Eleftherios Verivakis from April 25, 1986: Markos Natsinas from October 31, 1986: Anastasios Peponis
Minister for Research and Technology: Apostolos Kaklamanis ; from July 26, 1985: Eleftherios Verivakis from April 25, 1986: Markos Natsinas from October 31, 1986: Anastasios Peponis | Minister of Energy and Natural Resources: Eleftherios Verivakis from April 25, 1986: Markos Natsinas from October 31, 1986: Anastasios Peponis
Minister of Commerce: Nikolaos Akritidis from October 31, 1986: Vasilis Saranditis from February 5, 1987: Panagiotis Roumeliotis from November 27, 1987 : Nikolaos Akritidis from March 17, 1989: Giannos Papantoniou
Minister for Health and Social Security: Georgios Gennimatas from February 5, 1987: Georgios Mangakis from September 23, 1987: Alexandros Floros from November 18, 1988: Apostolos Kaklamanis
Minister for Transport and Communication: (from July 26, 1985): Georgios Papadimitriou from October 31, 1986: Konstantinos Bandouvas from June 22, 1988: Georgios Patsos from November 18, 1988: Ioannis Charalambis
Merchant Navy Minister: Gerasimos Arsenis from July 26, 1985: Efstathios Alexandris from September 23 1987: Evangelos Giannopoulos from November 18, 1988: Vasilios Saranditis from March 17, 1989: Antonios Dendinakis
Aegean Minister (from July 26, 1985) : Kosmas Sfyrios from February 5, 1987: Petros Valvis from November 18, 1988: Evangelos Giannopoulos
Minister for Public Works: Evangelos Kouloumbis from July 26, 1985 Menios Koutsogiorgas from November 18, 1988: Vasilios Kedikoglou from March 17, 1989: Emmanouil Papastefanakis
(until July 26, 1985) , Regional Planning, Housing and the Environment: Evangelos Kouloumbis from November 18, 1988: Vasilios Kedikoglou from March 17, 1989: Emmanouil Papastefanakis
Minister for Northern Greece: Andreas Papandreou , from July 26, 1985: Ioannis Papadopoulos from February 5, 1987: Stykianos-Angelos Papathemelis
Minister of Tourism (from March 17, 1989 :) Nikolaos Skoulas
Minister without portfolio : from 5 February 1987: Anastasios Filippopoulos
Prime Minister: Andreas Papandreou
Minister:
Foreign Minister: Karolos Papoulias | Defense: Gerasimos Arsenis
Minister to the Prime Minister: Anastasios Peponis from December 28, 1994: Georgios Mangakis
Economy Minister: Georgios Gennimatas († 25 April 1994), from May 6, 1994 : Yiannos Papantoniou
Finance Minister: Georgios Gennimatas (from February 25, 1994) : Alexandros Papadopoulos
Minister of the Interior: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos from July 8, 1994: Konstantinos Skandalidis from September 15, 1995: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos
Minister of Public Order: Stylianos-Angelos Papathemelis from April 4, 1995: Iosif Valirakis
Minister of Culture: Melina Mercouri († March 6, 1994), from March 16, 1994: Athanasios Mikroutsikos
Minister of Agriculture: Georgios Moraitis from September 15, 1995: Theodoros Stathis
Minister of Justice: Georgios Kouvelakis from February 10, 1995: Anastasios Peponis from September 15, 1995: Giannis Pottakis
Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs: Dimitris Fatouros from July 8, 1994: Giorgos A. Papandreou
Minister of Labor it: Evangelos Giannopoulos from July 8, 1994: Ioannis Skoularikis from September 15, 1995: Stefanos Tzoumakas
Minister for Industry, Energy and Technology: Konstantinos Simitis from September 15, 1995: Anastasios Peponis
Minister of Commerce: Konstantinos Simitis from September 15, 1995: Nikolaos Akritidis
Minister of Health and Social Security: Dimitrios Kremastinos from September 15, 1995: Dimitrios Kremastinos
Minister of Transport and Communication: Ioannis Charalambis from July 8, 1994: Theodoros Pangalos from September 15, 1994: Athanasios Tsouras from September 15, 1995: Evangelos Venizelos
Minister of Merchant Navy : Georgios Katsifaras | Aegean Minister: Konstantinos Skandalidis from July 8, 1994: Antonios Kotsakas
Minister for Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works :: Konstantinos Laliotis
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace: Konstantinos Triaridis | Tourism Minister Dionysios Livanos from June 23, 1995: Nikolaos Sifounakis
Minister for Press and Mass Media: from July 8, 1994: Evangelos Venizelos from September 15, 1995: Tilemachos Chytiris | Minister of State: Antonios Livanis
Prime Minister: Konstantinos Simitis
Minister:
Foreign Minister: Theodoros Pangalos from February 19, 1999: Giorgos A. Papandreou
Defense Minister: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos | Economy and Finance Minister: Giannos Papantoniou
Minister for Internal Affairs, Public Administration and Decentralization: Alexandros Papadopoulos from February 19, 1999: Vasso Papandreou from March 20, 2000: Georgios Koumandos
Minister for
Development Vasso Papandreou from February 19, 1999: Theodoros Pangalos
Minister for Environment, Regional Planning and Public Works: Konstantinos Laliotis
Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs: Gerasimos Arsenis
Minister of Agriculture: Stefanos Tzoumakas from October 30, 1998: Georgios Anomeritis
Minister of Labor and Social Security: Miltiadis Papaioannis
Minister of Health and Social Solidarity: Κonstantinos Gitonas from October 30, 1998: Georgios Anomeritis Minister of Labor and Social Security: Miltiadis Papaioannis Minister of Health and Social Solidarity: Κonstantinos Gitonas from October 30, 1998 October 1998: Lambros Papadimas
Minister of Justice: Evangelos Giannopoulos from March 20, 2000: Dimitrios Gourgourakis | Minister of Culture: Evangelos Venizelos from February 19, 1999: Elisabet Papazoi
Minister of Commerce: Stavros Soumakis | Minister of Transport and Communication: Charis Kastanidis from September 2, 1997: Αnastasios Mandelis
Minister of Public Order: Georgios Romeos from October 30, 1998: Filippos Petsalnikos from February 19, 1999: Michalis Chrysochoidis
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace: Filippos Petsalnikos from October 30, 1998: October 1998: Ioannis Mankriotis
Minister for the Aegean: Elisabet Papazoi from 19 February 1999: Stavros Benis
Press and Media
Minister : Dimitris Reppas from 20 March 2000: Anargyris Fatouros
Minister of State (from 30 October 1998): Κonstantinos Gitonas
Prime Minister: Konstantinos Simitis
Minister:
Foreign Minister: Giorgos A. Papandreou from February 13, 2004: Anastasios Giannitsis
Minister of Defense: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos from October 24, 2001: Giannos Papantoniou
Minister of Economics and Finance: Giannos Papantoniou from October 24, 2001: Nikolaos Christodoulakis
Minister for Internal Affairs, Public administration and decentralization: Vasso Papandreou from October 24, 2001: Konstantinos Skandalidis from February 13, 2004: Νikolaos Michail Alivizatou
Development
Minister Nikolaos Christodoulakis from October 24, 2001: Apostolos-Athanasios Tsochatzopoulos
Minister for the Environment, Spatial Planning and Public Works: Konstantinos Laliotis from October 24, 2001: October 2001: Vasso Papandreou
Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs: Petros Efthymiou
Minister of Agriculture: Georgios Anomeritis from October 24, 2001: Georgios Drys
Minister of Labor and Social Security: Anastasios Giannitsis from October 24, 2001: Dimitris Reppas
Minister of Health and so on cial solidarity: Alexandros Papadopoulos from June 13, 2002: Konstantinos Stefanis
Minister of Justice: Michail Stathopoulos from October 24, 2001: Filippos Petsalnikos
Minister of Culture: Theodoros Pangalos from November 20, 2000: Evangelos Venizelos from August 30, 2002: Georgios Lianis
Minister of Commerce: Christos Papoutsis from October 24, 2001: Georgios Anomeritis from July 7, 2003: Georgios Paschalidis
Minister of Transport and Communication: Christos Verelis | Minister for the Aegean: Nikolaos Sifounakis
Minister for Public Order: Michalis Chrysochoidis from July 7, 2003: Giorgos Floridis
Minister for Macedonia and Thrace: Georgios Paschalidis from July 7, 2003: Charis Kastanidis
Press and Media Minister : Dimitris Reppas from October 24, 2001 : Christos Protopapas from February 13, 2004: Georgios Romeos
Minister of State: Miltiadis Papaioannou from October 24, 2001: Stefanos Manikas from July 7, 2003: Alexandros Akrivakis
Minister:
Minister of the Interior, Decentralization and E-Government : Giannis Ragousis from June 17, 2011 Charis Kastanidis | Minister for Administrative Reform : from June 17, 2011 Dimitris Reppas | Finance Minister: Giorgos Papakonstantinou from June 17, 2011 Evangelos Venizelos | Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and the Merchant Navy: Louka Katseli from September 7, 2010: Michalis Chrysochoidis | Foreign Minister: Giorgos A. Papandreou from September 7, 2010: Dimitris Droutsas from June 17, 2011 Stavros Lambrinidis | Minister of State to the Foreign Minister: Dimitris Droutsas from September 7, 2010: Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou | Defense Minister: Evangelos Venizelos from June 17, 2011 Panos Beglitis | Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Religion: Anna Diamantopoulou | Minister of Labor and Social Security: Andreas Loverdos from September 7th 2010: Louka Katseli from June 17th 2011 Giorgos Koutroumanis | Minister of Health and Social Affairs: Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou from September 7th 2010: Andreas Loverdos | Minister for Rural Development and Food: Katerina Batzeli from September 7, 2010: Konstantinos Skandalidis | Minister for Justice, Transparency and Human Rights: Charis Kastanidis from June 17, 2011 Miltiadis Papaioannou | Minister for Citizens Protection: Michalis Chrysochoidis from September 7th 2010: Christos Papoutsis | Minister of Culture and Tourism: Pavlos Geroulanos | Minister for Infrastructure and Transport: Dimitris Reppas from June 17, 2011 Giannis Ragousis | Minister for Environment, Energy and Climate Change: Tina Birbili from June 17, 2011 Giorgos Papakonstantinou | Minister of State: Charis Pamboukis from June 17, 2011 Ilias Mosialos | Government spokesman : Giorgos Petalotis from June 17, 2011 Ilias Mosialos