Eurozone's enforcer ready to keep Greece's new leader in line
by Jon Henley in Athens from on (#MVW7)
Dutch economist Maarten Verwey has unprecedented powers as his taskforce oversees the implementation of Greece's cash-for-reforms rescue package
Whoever ends up moving into Maximos Mansion, the official Athens residence of Greece's prime ministers, after Sunday's election, they will not, in any meaningful sense, be running the country.
That honour might be said to go instead to a besuited Dutch economist in Brussels with the imposing title of director-general in the secretariat-general of the European commission in charge of the Structural Reform Support Service.
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