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Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou was a Greek academic and economist who was prime minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996. He founded PASOK, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
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politics · Prime Minister of Greece (1981–1989; 1993–1996) · politician · economist · university teacher · also Andreas Papandreou, Andreas Georgios Papandreou, Andreas Georgiou Papandreou, Papandreou
Born 5 February 1919 · Died 23 June 1996 · Q219256
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2026· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
Published “DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs” in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence — cited 18,381 times.
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2014· 1 entry
UPI: Topic: Andreas Papandreou
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1996· 1 entry
Died 1996-06-23.
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1994· 1 entry
Because public organizations were at near collapse after a decade without merit-based evaluations and intensified PASOK's clientelism
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1993· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Greece (1993–1996).
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After Antonis Samaras left New Democracy over disagreements on the handling of the Macedonia naming dispute
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1991· 1 entry
For trial, and Papandreou's trial began in Athens on 11 March 1991
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1990· 1 entry
Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1990–1993).
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1989· 7 entries
“s GDP by 1989. In March 1985, Papandreou stated that Greece would remain in the EEC for the foreseeable future because”
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And married Dimitra Liani, who was 37 years his junior
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1989–1989).
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Time magazine published claims by Koskotas alleging that Papandreou directed over $200 million in state funds to Koskotas's bank and received $600,000 in a Pampers box
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By the collaborative government of conservatives and communists to prevent future governments from exploiting the files for political gains, as Papandreou did
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During his catharsis, Junta's files on private citizens were revealed, which were promised by Papandreou to be destroyed before 1981 and proclaimed in 1985
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It was revealed that the National Information Service (EYR), through the state telecommunications organization OTE, had bugged over 46,000 phones of allies and enemies in politics, press, business, and law; Papandreou us
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1988· 1 entry
And the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement falling from 18% of GDP in 1985 to 13% in 1987
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1986· 3 entries
More than defense and education combined in his second administration
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Was his companion in the months before the surgery
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Consolidating power in the office of the prime minister, transformed the liberal democracy of Greece based on the constitution of 1975 into a 'populist democracy' with a majoritarian parliamentary system and a prime mini
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1985· 2 entries
His government bought 40 American F-16 and 40 French Mirage 2000 aircraft at the cost of US$2 billion, committing Greece's defense to long-term dependence on French and American technology
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Papandreou's government applied to the EEC for a $1
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1983· 4 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1983).
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Without offering an alternative, arguing it targeted civil liberties more than actual terrorists
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Modeled after the UK's National Health Service
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PASOK nationalized numerous industries by establishing a restructuring business agency called "Industrial Reconstruction Organisation
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1982· 4 entries
Restored pensions for politically dismissed civil servants in 1985, and granted war veteran status to leftist resistance fighters in August 1982, effectively formally recognising the entirety of the Greek Resistance
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And 1983, both followed by forced resignations, were likely failed coup attempts
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Pleasing the Greek military at the expense of the economy
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Secured official recognition of all the resistance groups, including EAM-ELAS and the return of Greek communist refugees of the Civil War
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1981· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Greece (1981–1989).
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Career landmark: Minister for National Defence of Greece (1981–1986).
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1980· 1 entry
To approximately 8% by the end of his first term
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1978· 1 entry
Which was based on the recently enacted Italian and German anti-terrorist bills
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1977· 1 entry
Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (1977–1981).
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1974· 4 entries
Greece faced growing terrorist activity, fueled by economic struggles and radical left-wing sympathies, especially among youth inspired by the Athens Polytechnic uprising
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Papandreou founded PASOK, the first organized Greek democratic socialist party
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Career landmark: chairperson (1974–1996).
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Career landmark: member of the Hellenic Parliament (1974–1996).
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1973· 1 entry
And 1979, which negatively affected the Greek economy, and Karamanlis's election to President of Greece in 1980, leaving a power vacuum in the upcoming 1981 elections
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1968· 2 entries
Papandreou formed an anti-dictatorship organization, the Panhellenic Liberation Movement (PAK), which sought to overthrow the military regime
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And Papandreou was not allowed by the junta regime to attend his father's funeral
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1965· 2 entries
Papandreou was accused in the Aspida case within the Hellenic Army
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Career landmark: Ministry of Coordination of Greece (1965–1965).
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1964· 2 entries
Career landmark: Ministry of Coordination of Greece (1964–1964).
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Career landmark: Minister at the Presidency of the Government of Greece (1964–1964).
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1963· 1 entry
Papandreou's rapid ascension during his father's premiership, together with his uncompromising radical rhetoric, amplified Greece's post–Civil War political instability leading to Iouliana, which created the conditions f
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1960· 1 entry
Began leading the Athens Economic Research Center and advising the Bank of Greece
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1959· 2 entries
And headed an economic development research program by invitation of Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis
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After years of resisting his father's entreaties to prepare him as successor
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1956· 1 entry
Accepted a tenured teaching position at the University of California, Berkeley, where he later became the Department of Economics chair
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1948· 1 entry
Entered into a relationship with Margaret Chant, a journalism student at University of Minnesota where he was a professor
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1946· 1 entry
As a student advisor until 1947, when he received an assistant professorship at the University of Minnesota
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1943· 1 entry
Papandreou received a PhD degree in economics from Harvard University
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1938· 1 entry
Papandreou left Greece for the United States to escape the 4th of August Regime and became a prominent academic
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1919· 1 entry
Born 1919-02-05.
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