None of which will help the European Commission, as sole purveyor of reform advice to Athens, overcome one major problem on the ground which de Bruijn, who is now a magistrate in The Hague, summarized with characteristic Dutch bluntness: “Greek civil servants are badly organized, they lack the proper skills, they have working methods that date from the last century…” “They are not a modern bureaucracy like we have in Western Europe.”
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