在2010到2012年间，偏左翼的泛希腊社会主义运动党执政，它实施了一切可以保持希腊欧元成员国身份并避免正式违约的措施。
Between 2010 and 2012, the center-left PASOK was in government, doing whatever it took to preserve Greece’s membership of the euro and ward off formal default.