Bureaucracy

Responsible administrators

Fining public administration employees who don't do their jobs on time may seem completely bizarre by Greek standards. It is, however, the reasonable thing to do if we want to have a civil service where each official feels personally responsible for the task he or she has been assigned.

Appointments and speed

Public services need reinforcement and new blood. However, this support must be carried out methodically, transparently and quickly. 

The pace at which the public administration recruitment processes, known as ASEP, operates has made transparency seem incompatible with speed. 

Ministry proposes overhaul of police disciplinary rules

Citizen Protection Ministry is spearheading a comprehensive reform of disciplinary law for Greece's police force.

In an official announcement, the ministry underscored that "almost sixteen years after the initial implementation of the discipline rules," efforts are underway "to usher the police into a new modern era of restructuring and reorganization."

Recruiting the best

Whatever the final tally of managing the climate threat, what is certain is that the people on the front lines - pilots, firefighters, security forces, volunteers - are fighting with self-sacrifice.

The state must ensure that they are not only compensated according to their contribution, but also that they are supported by the best experts in the country.

Gov't okays expenses on Integrated electronic system of Trade Register

The Government approved, in its Wednesday's meeting, the substantiation note regarding the necessity and the opportunity to carry out the expenses related to the 'Integrated electronic system of the National Office of the Trade Register', meant to reduce the bureaucracy and the time dedicated to the registration process of companies in the Trade Register.

Editorial: Promises and the invincible monster

One would expect that in a normal, well-governed country the role of the state and of public services would be to serve citizens.

Unfortunately, ever since the establishment of the Greek state in 1830 that has not been the case.

Every Greek citizen has suffered the martyrdom of dealing with a monstrous and constantly expanding bureaucracy.

Technical Chamber of Greece proposes integrated database to tackle red tape, corruption

In the effort to overcome Greece's notorious bureaucracy, conflicting laws and corruption that is sabotaging badly need investment, the president of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE), Giorgos Stasinos, has proposed the creation of a digital map that aims to collect all the information an investor needs with regard to land use.

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