Former PM George Papandreou is in Berlin participating in a conference on governance in Europe, at the invitation of the Hertie School of Governance, along with German finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijssenbloem , and former Italian PM Mario Monti.

In a meeting today, the “movement of 58” studied socialist PASOK party leader (and Foreign minister) Evangelos Venizelos' proposals for a common Europarliamentary election ticket and they flatly rejected it. With polls showing the formerly mighty PASOK party crumbling in low single digits, a coalition with center-left personalities was perhaps the only option.