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Costas Simitis
Costas Simitis
Κώστας Σημίτης
	Simitis in 2012
Prime Minister of Greece
	In office; 22 January 1996 – 10 March 2004
President	Kostis Stephanopoulos
Preceded by	Andreas Papandreou
Succeeded by	Kostas Karamanlis
President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement
	In office; 30 June 1996 – 8 February 2004
Preceded by	Andreas Papandreou
Succeeded by	George Papandreou
Prime Minister
Ministerial offices
Minister of Industry, Energy, Research and Technology
	In office; 13 October 1993 – 15 September 1995
Prime Minister	Andreas Papandreou
Preceded by	Vasileios Kontogiannopoulos
Succeeded by	Anastasios Peponis
Minister of Trade
	In office; 13 October 1993 – 15 September 1995
Prime Minister	Andreas Papandreou
Preceded by	Vasileios Kontogiannopoulos
Succeeded by	Nikolaos Akritidis
Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs
	In office; 23 November 1989 – 13 February 1990
Prime Minister	Xenophon Zolotas
Preceded by	Konstantinos Despotopoulos
Succeeded by	Konstantinos Despotopoulos
Minister of National Economy
	In office; 26 July 1985 – 27 November 1987
Prime Minister	Andreas Papandreou
Preceded by	Gerasimos Arsenis
Succeeded by	Panagiotis Roumeliotis
Minister of Agriculture
	In office; 21 October 1981 – 26 July 1985
Prime Minister	Andreas Papandreou
Preceded by	Athanasios Kanellopoulos
Succeeded by	Ioannis Pottakis
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
	In office; 2 June 1985 – 7 September 2009
Constituency	Piraeus A
Personal details
Born	23 June 1936 (age 88); Piraeus, Greece
Political party	Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Other political; affiliations	PASOK – Movement for Change
Spouse	Daphni Arkadiou (m. 1964)
Relations	Spiros Simitis (brother)
Children	Fiona; Marilena
Alma mater	University of Marburg; London School of Economics
Website	Official website

Constantine G. Simitis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Σημίτης; born 23 June 1936) is a Greek retired politician who led the 'Modernization' movement of Greece. He succeeded in leadership Andreas Papandreou, the founder of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), and served as Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004.

The leadership transition from Papandreou to Simitis was neither orderly nor `friendly.' Simitis faced loyalists of the former Prime Minister who had spent much of their energy trying to prevent such a transition from ever taking place. From the outset, the less-than-dominant position Simitis held in his party circumscribed so many of his actions. By the time he had left office in 2004, however, Simitis had a number of significant achievements and reforms in the wider society and economy to proclaim: Greek entry into the Euro currency; the Cypriot accession into the EU; the successful completion of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics; and the accomplishment of a variety of large-scale infrastructure projects (like the new Eleftherios Venizelos airport, the Athens ring road, Athens Metro, and Rio–Antirrio Bridge). New institutions were also introduced, such as the Greek Ombudsman and a number of regulatory bodies to supervise market liberalization.^[1]

Under Simitis' governments, the Greek economy, after two decades of the exuberant rhetoric of his predecessors and financial stagnation,^[2] was put in order by reducing inflation from an annual average of 15% to 3%, and budget deficits from more than 10% to 3%. The economy grew with an average annual increase of 4.1% of GDP.^[3]

Much later, after the debt crisis erupted in Greece in 2009, the legacy would be re-interpreted by critics as not being enough or misleading. Yet, under Simitis, Greece had seemingly strengthened its capacity for reform and had, indeed, appeared both more 'modern' and 'European.'^[1]

^ ^a ^b Featherstone, Kevin; Papadimitriou, Dimitris (2015). Prime Ministers in Greece, The Paradox of Power. Oxford University Press. pp. 139–140.
^ "Simitis victory allows him to chart his own course".
^ "Greece GDP over the years".

[Featherstone_p139-1] Featherstone, Kevin; Papadimitriou, Dimitris (2015). Prime Ministers in Greece, The Paradox of Power. Oxford University Press. pp. 139–140.

[2] "Simitis victory allows him to chart his own course".

[3] "Greece GDP over the years".

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