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Greece’s ‘Watergate’ explained: why the European Parliament is investigating over a wiretapping scandal
After Greece and the European Central Bank agreed post-economic-crash bailout terms in 2010, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a 146-page report outlining all the key state problems that were seen as having caused Greece’s fiscal crisis.
One of them was corruption, which has eaten away at accountability in Greek politics since the end of military dictatorship in 1974.
- Georgios Samaras
- The Conversation
Sean Hagan, the former general counsel of the IMF described Greece as a tough case, as corruption appeared …