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Mr Papandreou, a former foreign minister who reached out to Turkey, is mistrusted by his party's old-fashioned nationalists.

The recession is expected to last until 2013, with unemployment likely to exceed 20%.Until Mr Papandreou stepped out of line, Greece was due to receive another €8 billion tranche of its current bail-out loan, enough to cover wages and pensions until the end of the year and pay back some €2 billion of debt maturing in December.

On March 4th Greece resumed some bond sales.In this section Now comes the pain No, thanks Central questions Gone fishing Impunity time Stand and deliver Europe's hypochondriacs Correction: Dutch politics ReprintsMr Papandreou had shrugged off earlier warnings from Brussels (and Berlin) that more had to be done.

Mr Papandreou visited Libya, winning a promise from Muammar Qaddafi to support projects in Greece.

Mr Papandreou is hoping that a vision of future prosperity will offset the misery of today's austerity.

If Mr Papandreou gives in to the farmers, the EU should probably be sceptical about his promises to cut his deficits by 10% in three years.

George Papandreou had already quit in Greece, also handing over to a caretaker administration, after exasperating the big EU powers by trying to call a referendum on the terms of Greece's bailout.

Where voters have not "kicked out the bums", the big EU rulers have acted instead, with Berlin, Paris, Brussels, and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt conspiring to bring down elected prime ministers Silvio Berlusconi in Italy and George Papandreou in Greece.

The prospect – one that would bring the crisis full circle three years after George Papandreou also proposed holding a referendum – has been quick to send tremors through Europe.

When a former Greek prime minister, George Papandreou, suggested holding a referendum in 2011 he was summoned to Brussels and told to drop the idea sharpish.

Instead, the Socialist government of George Papandreou is split over the prospect of yet more painful reforms.