Friday, November 4, 2011

Why did he do it? Explaining Papandreou's referendum gamble

Panicked by riots in the street? Hoping to quell political opposition? Or did he simply want to throw in the towel?

Greeks were Thursday still debating Prime Minister George Papandreou's apparently suicidal decision to call for a referendum on an EU bailout deal, which plunged the euro into a new crisis and enraged his European partners.


AFP