Reassuring words from Greece

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The Prime Minister insists that he is not going to let Greece become "an unfenced, untended vineyard". The country is focused, he says, not disorientated.

Full article and quotation, Kathimerini (Greek)

On another occasion, the Prime Minister said that "in a nutshell, we are changing Greece at home and we are rebranding it abroad".

Euronews Interview  with George Papandreou: "The Future of Greece" (in English).

Worth watching the video interview. George Papandreou is always highly articulate in English and skilled at "rebranding". The interview covers issues like stereotyping, transparency, trust, tax evasion, tax havens, governance, recession, reform and change. "We are not THE problem", argues the former PM.

Corfu resident Richard Pine, writing in the Irish Times, says "the gap is closing".

Reuters on the visit of Chancellor Merkel to Athens