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                In his speech, Mr. Chrisochoidis said that:
              
            
            
              
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              came here tonight in order to show my deep
            
            
              respect to the people who achieved distinc-
            
            
              tion in such a tough period. It is a time for
            
            
              being silent, and acting. But we must also make a
            
            
              bet. Both the causes and the results of the eco-
            
            
              nomic crisis are known. Nonetheless, we must
            
            
              restore confidence in politics, and tonight I want
            
            
              to assure you that we will take great pains to
            
            
              restore the honour and value of politics. I want to
            
            
              make an appeal for unity to all of you, the repre-
            
            
              sentatives of the country's business community
            
            
              who struggle against a harsh reality. Only with
            
            
              unity and hard effort we will show Europe and the
            
            
              ACCI
            
            
              AWARDS 2011
            
            
              The ceremony for the “ACCI AWARDS 2011”, where the
            
            
              Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry honoured busi-
            
            
              nesses and businesspeople that stood out during the previous
            
            
              year, was held on October 5th, for a 15th consecutive year,
            
            
              in the presence of representatives of the political world and
            
            
              many entrepreneurs. The then Minister for Development,
            
            
              Competitiveness and Shipping, Michalis Chrisochoidis, made a
            
            
              speech and also presented the awards to the winners.
            
            
              
                
                  By Theodore Vamvakaris