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Papademos (L) in a huddle with former ECB chief Trichet at the EU Council in Brussels (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

ECB man to rule Greece for 15 weeks

Lucas Papademos, a former vice-president of the European Central Bank (ECB), is to be sworn in as prime minister of Greece for a 15-week period in which he will pass laws on an EU bail-out package.

Following four days of back-room horsetrading between Pasok, the socialist party of George Papandreou, and Antonis Samaris, the head of the centre-right New Democracy party, it was agreed on Thursday (10 November) that Papademos would take over the premiership.

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