There were no hidden agendas and both worked together to achieve the objective, because then-president Glafcos Clerides was truly committed to close cooperation, as was Greece's PM at the time, Costas
Simitis. They also came close to securing a Cyprus settlement, only for elections to prevent this from happening.
He wandered happily through the meat markets early in the morning and in and out of the office of the minister of agriculture, Constantine
Simitis. His main concern was always that he was not keeping up to the timing of the schedule I had prepared for him.
1996 - New Socialist Prime Minister Costas
Simitis called on all Greeks to join his struggle to build a strong nation with a new role in Europe and the Balkans.
The year was 1985, and Spiros
Simitis, Germany's leading privacy scholar and practitioner--at the time the data protection commissioner of the German state of Hesse--was addressing the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
This study is an attempt to apply the Gramscian notion of hegemony to the multicyclical relations between the European Union (EU), the Greek ruling elite and the Turkish Muslim minority during the
Simitis period within the context of Europeanization.
Hardouvelis was economics adviser to former Greek Prime Minister Costas
Simitis who steered the country into the euro zone in 2001.
Former heads of government Felipe Gonzalez (Spain), Lionel Jospin (France), Paavo Lipponen (Finland), Gerhard Schroder (Germany), Costas
Simitis (Greece), Franz Vranitzky (Austria) and former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski have signed it.
Constantinos
Simitis , a former prime minister of Greece, is a member of the Action Committee on European Democracy.
The two also agreed to move forward a joint action plan on bilateral cooperation signed in 2002 between Koizumi and then Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos
Simitis, the officials said.