Europe has taken charge of Greece like a television nanny
by Heather Stewart from on (#HH70)
The publication last week of the debt deal signed by Alexis Tsipras has laid bare an alarming programme of social revolution and pervasive oversight
On Channel 4's The Three Day Nanny, modern-day Mary Poppins Kathryn Mewes arrives in a household of tantrum-prone tots and has just 72 hours to transform them with tough love and discipline into model family members. Judging by Greece's latest bailout deal, its lenders, led by the German government, are adopting much the same approach.
It was already clear in the wake of eurozone leaders' marathon all-night talks last month that the governing leftist party Syriza was being punished for its temerity in challenging the eurozone orthodoxy of austerity.
Once it gets down to the nitty-gritty, the abrogation of political control signalled by the memorandum is extraordinary
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