Wired-up tax snoopers could be unleashed in Greece

Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis comes up with novel methods to reform Greek economy before meeting with eurozone ministers

The Greek government has told its eurozone creditors it has a novel way of tackling the country's chronic tax evasion culture - wiring students, tourists, and housewives for sound and video to spy on tax dodgers while posing as shoppers and customers.

Yanis Varoufakis, the flamboyant Greek finance minister, wrote to Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch finance minister and head of the eurogroup, and laid out seven proposed reforms of the Greek economy before Monday's meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels.