George Papandreou
Noonan defends his cheesy line as ex-Greek PM calls him 'simplistic'
...Ireland Economic Summit were branded as "flippant" and "simplistic" by former Greek prime minister George Papandreou. Mr Noonan said yesterday that he was trying to prevent the financial...
Peter Alexander Meyers: Who Needs a Greek Government?
Why? To expose the free-for-all free-fall corruption under New Democracy. Then, despite himself, George Papandreou became a whistle-blower on a pan-European confidence game. All the...
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Patrick Cockburn: Goodbye to recent delusions - the age of nationalism is back with a vengeance
...from the Troika," he said. This is not now going to happen. When the then Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, suggested that there should be a referendum on the deal with the EU...
Europe thinks the unthinkable on Greece
...evoked memories of a bitter row between Athens and the EU last year, when Greece's thenPrime Minister George Papandreou proposed a referendum on the country's bailout deal -- an idea...
Row over Angela Merkel call for Greek euro referendum
...election. Ms Merkel had previously rejected the idea of a referendum when it was proposed in October by George Papandreou, the former prime minister. The new government, named this week,...
UPDATE: Germany Denies Asking Greece To Hold A Referendum On The Euro
...on its membership in the eurozone. Oddly enough, this is similar to former Prime Minister George Papandreou's proposal that Greece have a referendum on austerity measures and euro...
Mr. Lie When It's Serious Juncker Tells Another Whopper: I Don't Envisage, Not Even for One Second, Greece Leaving the Euro Area ; Two More Days of Hopefully Futile Coalition Talks on a Government of Personalities
...mind Juncker's support for a Troika installed puppet government in Greece, after Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou proposed putting bailout measures to a vote. Notice that bailout...
Eurozone crisis live: Markets slide as Greek euro exit looms
...Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy in Cannes, France. After that, with Europe's power couple losing all trust in him, Papandreou was forced to step aside. And, the rest, as they say, is...
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Opinion: Greek Tragedy
...their own future, a future with more choices than those on offer from the European Central Bank. When George Papandreou, who was prime minister at the time but resigned last November,...
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Triple-Decker Weekly
...that wiped out more than EUR100 billion of Greek bond debt. […] Greek premier George Papandreou says that when he asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for gentler conditions in 2010, she...
How a Radical Greek Rescue Plan Fell Short
...the original bailout and then was forced out by a party revolt last fall. Mr. Papandreou says that when he asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for gentler conditions in 2010, she...
Sarkozy joins fallen leaders amid Europe crisis
...later, at the height of Greece's worst financial crisis since World War II, Papandreou's own deputies force him out after he endangers a hard-won bailout by pledging to put it to a...
