Article 5

Article title:

No Interim Government as Greek Disarray Goes On

Date published: November 9, 2011

Date Accessed: November 10, 2011

The Prime Minister George A. Papandrou announced on national television on Monday that a new government had been formed. However surprisingly the name of the new government was not announced. It was later found out that neither had Mr. Papandrou resigned nor had any new government been chosen. Greece had been in a large financial debt and to avoid the future catastrophe the European Union had decided that a new government would be the best solution. Under pressure of the European Union the Prime Minister had agreed to resign on Sunday, but the president's office refuses to make any comments before Thursday. The protests in Greece has been going on for months but the current government is not very willing to give up its power. Opposition party New Democracy has been accused of standing in way of the current government's resignation but they refuse it. People suspect that New democracy is forcing the current government to yield power to them.

This event is quite surprising as Arab Spring is also going on in the Middle-East. The government of Syria led by President Assad had also promised the European Union and the United Nation that it would resign by the end of October. However they are still in power and continue to use military dictatorship to rule the people. Those who try to protest are not imprisoned but straight away shot. about 30,000 individuals have already been killed and the number is expected to rise further. The government had promised elections in February but that does not seem to occur most likely. This is quiet similar to what happened in Greece. In both the places the government promised to resign, however they did not. These government are power hungry aristocrats who have ruled their country for so long that they do not want to give up their power. They do not care about the individual's welfare; They only care about their own.

VOCABULARY

Catastrophe

A disaster

ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in the sense‘denouement’): from Latin catastropha, fromGreek katastrophē ‘overturning, sudden turn,’ from kata- ‘down’ + strophē ‘turning’(from strephein ‘to turn’).

The landslide was a shocking catastrophe which led to the death of a large number of students and employes.

Dictatorship

absolute authority in any sphere

ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin, from dictat- ‘dictated,’ from the verb dictare(see dictate) .

During the 18th century, most countries in the world had a dictatorship rule.

Aristocrat

Someone who believes he is the best and superior to everybody else

ORIGIN late 18th cent.: from French aristocrate (a word of the French Revolution), from aristocratie (seearistocracy) .

The teacher did not listen to her student's opinion and just did what she felt was right; This led some students to think that she was an aristocrat.