A blue Mercedes-Benz once owned by former Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou is set to change hands after a Greek entrepreneur living in the Netherlands agreed to buy the car, calling it a tribute to a pivotal figure in the country’s political history.

Movement For Change (KINAL) party's second and final symposium day on Sunday culminated to a closing address by party leader Fofi Gennimata, a warm welcome to Frans Timmermans, the elected European Socialists' lead candidate for the 2019 European elections vote, and the celebration of the centenary of Andreas Papandreou's birth, founder of the PanHellenic Socialist Party (PASOK), a party from which KINAL was morphed.

In 1982, the then newly incumbent PASOK government under Andreas Papandreou was of intense interest to UK officials, as Foreign Office documents recently declassified show. UK services were keen to see where Andreas Papandreou was “heading” as until that time he was an unknown quantity, and his leftist rhetoric was a source of concern.