IN Athens, walls have ears. The leaking of a conference call of International Monetary Fund officials on Greece’s latest bailout review has further undermined mutual trust in fraught debt talks, embarrassed the European Commission and infuriated the IMF and Germany.
At stake are the IMF’s reputation as a stern enforcer of financial rescue programmes meant to make indebted states viable and the European Union’s determination to hold the euro zone together and avert another damaging Greek crisis.
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