The Greek public sector is a mess. That’s no news. But it seems that the Greek public sector is such a mess that it led seven high ranking French officials to quit their jobs focusing on the restructuring of the complicated and failing state apparatus.
For the past few months, the French team of experts visited Athens in order to update the controversial public sector of the country, which is one of the main targets set by the European task force within the country’s bailout program.
According to a Proto Thema report, under the guidance of Horst Reichenbach, the French team came to Athens and soon enough started implementing the European restructuring plan aiming at sanitizing the public sector of Greece. The team proceeded with evaluating the civil servants’ performance, reducing the controversial list of special payrolls, merging the some 1,500 autonomous state services and reducing public servants by 150,000 by 2015.
However, things did not run as smoothly as expected for the French technocrats who got lost in the endless labyrinth of the public sector.
Only a few months after coming to Greece, the seven French public servants decided to turn in their resignations and give up their privileged jobs, bonuses and high salaries and return to Paris after a fruitless attempt to reorganize the public service in Greece.
However, the high ranking team of experts was eventually convinced to reconsider their resignations and return to their jobs, since Paris, Berlin and Brussels did not want to leave the impression on the international community that they are abandoning Greece to its fate.
Now the question is whether the French technocrats manage to introduce the desired changes in the Greek public sector after the pending general elections of June 17.
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