refugee camps 1. hotbeds of crime and lawlessness \u201cIt pains me to see Greece not filled with refugee camps\u201d 2. evidence of state failure \u201cThe ease with which various groups of lawbreakers operate is enough, and I don\u2019t think we need more refugee camps.\u201d 3. Decay and decline: \u201cI fear that society\u2019s \u2018refugee camps\u2019 can no longer be swept under the rug.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sight of the \u201crefugee camps\u201d on Alexandras Avenue is a visual representation of the state\u2019s defeat. Just a few meters from the headquarters of ELAS (Michalis\u2019, not Tzokontou\u2019s) and a little further from the Supreme Court, an entire city block has been left to the whims of squatters and other lawbreakers, with the police merely standing by. \u201c\u2018At least they\u2019re watching,\u2019 one might say, given that the march organized by supporters of lawlessness through the center of Agia Paraskevi culminated in an attack on the home of Regional Governor Chardalias and the vandalism of all the buildings in the neighborhood, the police were conspicuously absent. I don\u2019t know what the government is thinking, but the image of a society in which all kinds of vulnerable people (whether socially or ideologically) act with impunity is not particularly flattering. And the problem with unflattering images is that they usually cost votes.<\/p>\n
I watched the video of the deputy mayor of Athens in which Chrysostomos Doukas anxiously tries to identify with the (almost certain) new leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Ant Burnham, and I must admit I didn\u2019t understand what this comparison was based on. Was Burnam really such a bad mayor?<\/p>\n
The news is positive for PASOK in the new Interview poll. The party of Androulakis and Doukas seems to be securing third place and, as things stand, won\u2019t have to fight for a spot in the top five.<\/p>\n
<\/b>\u201cThis is the first time I\u2019ve seen such anxiety on the panels regarding the taxation of wealth,\u201d said the spokesperson for Tzokondou, Koufonikolakou, perhaps because she doesn\u2019t seem to remember that the last time her leader \u201ctook on\u201d our \u201cwealth,\u201d he made us foot the bill.<\/p>\n
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