Greece tries to regain stability

GREEK party leaders laboured yesterday to agree on a new prime minister, with the nation and the EU clamouring for a deal on a unity coalition to save the country’s finances and end the chaos threatening the euro.

A source at the ruling socialist party said that negotiations on getting former European Central Bank vice president Lucas Papademos to lead the interim government were being concluded, but details were still being ironed out.

There was no word on whether Papademos, a Greek economist known in European capitals, would accept the job.