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This one stated that the nation would now be a parliamentary republic with some executive powers given to a president. In 1981, Georgios Papandreou’s son Andreas—who in turn was the father of the 21st century prime minister George Papandreou—became prime minister. He oversaw the process by which Greece joined the European Union that year. Twenty years later, in 2001, Greece became part of the eurozone. That means it stopped using the drachma, which had been its system of money for many years. Greece replaced the drachma with the euro, a currency which more than a dozen European countries now use.
The resulting German occupation lasted for three and a half years and was especially brutal. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks died of starvation or were executed. indd 32 5/6/14 12:35 PM Centuries of Changes became a republic once again and also voted to abolish the monarchy. At this time Konstantinos Karamanlis became the prime minister. The following year, the country ratified another new constitution. This one stated that the nation would now be a parliamentary republic with some executive powers given to a president.
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