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Greek PM calls referendum on EU debt dea
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 2011-10-31
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=332636