Sarkozy Meets Papandreou Troika Visit Continues Student Protest

(30 Sep 2011) SHOTLIST
Paris, France
1. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and French President Nicolas Sarkozy shaking hands after talks
2. Cutaway French and EU flags
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister
"I want to make it very clear that Greece is determined. I, myself, our government, the Greek people, are determined to make the necessary changes. We are making the sacrifices and we will live up to our part of the decisions that we have taken, our responsibilities, making all of the necessary reforms. First of all because we want to change Greece and make Greece a competitive, socially just and transparent country."
4. Cutaway honour guard
5. SOUNDBITE (English) George Papandreou, Greek Prime Minister
"We will be very happy for him (President Sarkozy) to send, or any country who wants to send, experts to see what we are doing in full transparency so that the people know the changes we are making and the efforts we are all doing, the sacrifices the Greek people are making to change our country."
6. Wide of Elysee Palace exterior
7. Papandreou leaves
8. Sarkozy approaches microphone
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President
"Europe is a civilisation, it is a family, and it is a solidarity. When one member of the family is going through difficulties, the other members of the family should rally to help them. Failure in Greece would be failure for all of Europe. There is no other credible alternative possible. Yes there is a moral obligation of solidarity but there is an economic obligation of solidarity."
Athens, Greece
10. Close-up of IMF representative Poul Thomsen speaking inside entrance to building housing deputy prime minister''''s office
11. Wide entrance with Thomsen speaking
12. Security
13. Tracking of Thomsen exiting building, walking and entering car
14. Close-up of Thomsen in car, car driving off
15. Medium of students with raised arms, clapping with slogans
16. Wide of students facing off with police with shields outside Parliament
17. Close-up of police legs
18. Close-up of police with shields and gas masks facing student banner
19. Ambulances approaching demonstration
20. Police moving police bus blocking road to allow ambulances to get through and moving back into position
21. Police with shields in front of police bus
22. Wide of Parliament with student demo marching by
23. Student protesters arm in arm marching
24. Close-up protesters
25. Tilt down from finance ministry to students shouting slogans
26. Banner reading (Greek) "There is no beauty beyond the struggle"
27. Wide of march
STORYLINE
Greece''''s prime minister travelled to Paris on Friday for talks with the French president regarding Europe''''s attempts to prop up his debt-choked Mediterranean country.
After the talks, President Nicolas Sarkozy described Europe as "a family" and said that "when one member of a family is in difficulty, the other members must act to help them".
Prime Minister George Papandreou called the meeting "very constructive" and invited Greece''''s European partners to send observers to verify firsthand Greece''''s commitment to meeting its economic reform goals.
In Athens, meanwhile, officials from the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Commission - known as the troika - continued their review of reforms Greece must make to qualify for its latest installment of bailout loans.
Also in the capital, a few hundred students marched peacefully through the centre, to protest at education reforms.

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