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World Service,29 Nov 2011,18 mins

Lazy Greeks?

Business Daily

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Are Greeks less hard-working than workers from other nations? Lesley Curwen discusses this with Jon Moulton, Chairman of the private equity group Better Capital, Dr Paola Subacchi, Research Director for international economics at Chatham House and Peter Spiegel, the Bureau Chief of the Financial Times in Brussels. And the head of the EU Taskforce in Greece, Horst Reichenbach talks about the massive scale of the task to reform its dysfunctional tax collection system. Plus, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers reflects on the lessons learned from the financial crisis.

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