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Europe
Greek PM calls referendum on EU debt dea
2011-10-31
The referendum will decide if they stay in the Euro or not.
"The plan of initiatives calls for a confidence vote," Papandreou told his Socialist party lawmakers in parliament, moments after he had also announced a referendum would also be held on the EU deal.

"The command of the Greek people will bind us," he said.

"Do they want to adopt the new deal, or reject it? If the Greek people do not want it, it will not be adopted," the prime minister said after protests were held around the country last week against his government's austerity policies.
Excellent idea: let the people speak. Though one must note that it's a bit unusual for the elites of Europe to let the people decide. They must really be stuck...
Papandreou, who has 153 deputies in the 300-seat parliament, has faced increasing dissent within his own party over the hardening austerity policy monitored by the EU and the International Monetary Fund that has sparked general strikes and widespread protests, many of them violent.

Public anger showed itself again around the country on Friday as parades were held to mark Greece's wartime resistance to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
Posted by:tipper

#3  Clearly the Greek government has decided staying in the Eurozone is no longer possible and a referendum is the face saving way to exit.
Posted by: phil_b   2011-10-31 20:40  

#2  The UK would like one too, on leaving/staying in the EUSSR.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-10-31 16:10  

#1  Public anger showed itself again around the country on Friday as parades were held to mark Greece's wartime resistance to Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

I wonder if they also remember that rival resistance groups gunned for each other too.

Starting in 1943, on a number of cases EDES and ELAS fought each other in a sort of prelude to the civil war that sprang up after the German departure in 1944. EAM alleged that EDES was aided by the German occupying forces and by the Nazi-supported puppet regimes of Tsolakoglou, Logothetopoulos and Rallis. This situation led to triangular battles among ELAS, EDES and the Germans. At the same time, ELAS attacked and destroyed Psarros' military formation, the "5/42 Evzones Regiment", killing him. - Wiki
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-10-31 16:01  

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