Editing Andreas Papandreou

{{Infobox politician|name=Andreas Papandreou|native_name=Ανδρέας Παπανδρέου|birth_date=5 February 1919|birth_place=[[Chios]], Greece|death_date=23 June 1996|death_place=Ekali, Greece|nationality=[[Greece|Greek]]|political_orientation=[[Social democracy]]<br>[[Democratic socialism]] (alleged by some)<br>[[Anti-imperialism]]|political_party=[[PASOK]]|image=Andreas Papandreou.jpg}}

'''Andreas Papandreou''' was a Greek politician who served as the Prime Minister of Greece from 1981 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 1996.

== Prime Minister of Greece ==

=== Economic Policy ===
During his first tenure, Papandreou nationalized some enterprises. <ref>{{Citation|author=Προβόπουλος, Γεώργιος|year=1985|title=Οι δημόσιες επιχειρήσεις και οργανισμοί.|city=Athens|publisher=IOBE}}</ref>

Papandreou's economic policies resulted in inflation dropping to 13,1% in June 1989 from 24,2% in October 1981.<ref>{{Citation|author=Πάνος Καζάκος|year=2000|title=Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους|chapter=Παροχές και λιτότητα: η οικονομία στη δεκαετία του 1980|page=364-371|city=Athens|publisher=Εκδοτική Αθηνών}}</ref> 

The per capita income in US dollars increased by 5.2% from 1981 to 1989, from 13,443$ in 1981 to 14,148$ in 1989. <ref>{{Citation|url=https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/international-macroeconomic-data-set.aspx}}</ref>

During his final 1993 - 1996 tenure, inflation dropped from 14,4% in 1993 to 8,2% in 1996. <ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=National Statistic Authority of Greece|url=http://www.statistics.gr/gr_tables/S1000_DK_12_TS_01_59_05_09_5_Y.pdf}}</ref>

=== Social Policy ===
Papandreou established the National Health System, which is regarded as PASOK's best governmental action, even as of today.

He also allowed [[National Liberation Front (Greece)|EAM]] activists to return in Greece and receive special pensions, while many of their secret service folders were passed to the civilian administration. The purpose of this was to repatriate many Greek war refugees as well. <ref>{{Citation|author=Τζούκας, Βαγγέλης· Παναγιωτόπουλος, Π.|year=2010|title=Η αναγνώριση της Εθνικής Αντίστασης|city=Athens|publisher=Το Πέρασμα|isbn=978-960-98310-8-6}}</ref>

The Woman Association of Greece also got strengthened.

Finally, the police state Greece had got reduced, as the Gendarmerie, and the City Police got merged and formed today's Hellenic Police, whereas the Central Information Service got disbanded and reformed into the present-day National Information Service. <ref>{{Web citation|author=Βαμβακάς, Β.|title=Η Ελλάδα στη δεκαετία του 80: κοινωνικό, πολιτικό και πολιτισμικό λεξικό|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/59921571/%CE%97-%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%BD%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B7-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%95%CE%B8%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE%CF%82-%CE%91%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%AF%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%BF-%CE%92-%CE%92%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BA%CE%AC%CF%82-%CE%A0-%CE%A0%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%89%CF%84%CF%8C%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%B5%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BC-%CE%97-%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7-%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85-80-%CE%BA%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%BD%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%B9-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C-%CE%BB%CE%B5}}</ref>

=== Foreign Policy ===
While Papandreou himself was staunchly against [[NATO]] and the [[EEC]], many party members were for staying in both. Notably, he used the slogans "Out of NATO", "Out of EEC", "EEC, the pit of lions" and "EEC and NATO, the same syndicate".

He pushed for better terms for Greece and other South European countries regarding their staying in the EEC, some of which got accepted.<ref>{{Web citation|url=http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/el-GR/Policy/European+Policy/Greece+in+EU/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060717045858/http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/el-GR/Policy/European+Policy/Greece+in+EU/|archive-date=2006-07-17|retrieved=2023-12-03}}</ref>

[[Neoliberalism|Neoliberal]] politician and then [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Prime Minister of the UK]] [[Margaret Thatcher]] said about him: <ref>{{Web citation|author=Νίκος Νικολάου|newspaper=Καθημερινή|title=Αφηγησεις / Η κοινωνία και όχι η οικονομία, η προτεραιότητα του Ανδρέα|date=2008-01-26|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117013524/http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_2_26/01/2008_257006|archive-url=http://news.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_2_26/01/2008_257006|archive-date=2012-11-17|retrieved=2023-12-03}}</ref><blockquote>"I never liked him, but he never left any EEC summit without getting something for his country"</blockquote>He was for a two-state solution in the "Israeli" - Palestinian conflict and he had a close relation with PLO leader [[Yasser Arafat]]. He also praised anti-imperialist leaders [[Idi Amin]] of Uganda and [[Muammar Gaddafi]] of the [[Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2011)|Libyan Arab Jamahiriya]]. More specifically, during an interview in 1977, he said about Amin: <ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Τα Νέα|title=Συνέντευξη με τον Ανδρέα Παπανδρέου|date=1977-02-28}}</ref><blockquote>He fights against the metropolitan centers of the West and he himself is their target. That alone puts him, in the worldwide chess board, in the place of anti-imperialist powers.</blockquote>About Gaddafi, he said: <ref>{{Citation|author=Robert D. Kaplan|title=Phantoms of the Balkans|page=467}}</ref><blockquote>Libya isn't a military dictatorship. In fact, it's the opposite. It is a government in the model of the Ancient Athenian democracy.</blockquote>He also denounced the [[anti-communist]] leader of the [[Polish People's Republic (1947–1989)|Polish]] organization [[Solidarity (organization)|Solidarity]], [[Lech Wałęsa]] and supported [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] instead. <ref>{{Citation|author=Gabriele, Simoncini|year=2003|title=National Minorities of Poland at the end of the Twentieth Century|publisher=The Polish Review. Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America.}}</ref> In a meeting there, he said:<blockquote>The [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|USSR]] is not an imperialist power, because to be imperialist, you need to be capitalist. In fact, the USSR is a power fighting against imperialism.</blockquote>

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