George Papandreou is the current Prime Minister of Greece. He served as foreign Minister during the 'golden years' of the Simitis administration and he is of course the son of Andreas Papandreou, who was PM in the 80s and the grandson of George Papandreou was was the PM during the 1967 crisis, so he is the 3rd of the strong dynasty of politicians. His sister, Vaso is also commissioner in the EU.
Any way that is just a way of a back round that don't necessarily mean much other than to say that he was brought up thinking politics. George was a very close friend of Tony Blair, they used to have holidays together (not just the two of them of course..) and he was inspired by the Blair project, so he is the Greek version of a Blairite.
He won the election two years ago and inherited the mess the ND party with Cosas Karamalis created. He was of course the nephew of Constantine Karamalis. Now George is also working closely with his ex rival Evangelos Venizelos who also comes from another political family.
George Papandreou has shown clear leadersip in the latest crisis by pushing through parliament very tough measures that are extremely unpopular with the general population so if there was an election tomorrow he would definitely not be winning it, it remains to be seen whether the measures adopted (which ensure fiscal convergence with Europe) will work, if they don't the entire Euro project and George will go down the toilet of history.
Nick Venedi
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