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GREEK PRIME minister George Papandreou attacked speculators who were selling Greece’s government debt, blaming those with “ulterior motives” for exacerbating the country’s mounting debt crisis.

Sharing a stage with European Central Bank (ECB) president Jean-Claude Trichet at the Davos economic summit, Mr Papandreou said that there had been a lot of “speculation” during the financial crisis and that people who opposed the euro had targeted countries such as Greece. Countries like Greece are “being used as the weak link, if you like, of the euro zone”.