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Notwithstanding the enthusiastic comments on Greece's performance in the reform field and despite the warm congratulations of Europeans for the hard but necessary measures that have been voted in the last few weeks, everyone is letting the IMF call the shots and play games with Athens.

"If our creditors have not yet reached the point of respecting our reports and accepting them, if they need more time, we can take it into account and give it to them," said Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in an interview with Handelsblatt.

The US Congressional Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on Thursday to evaluate lessons from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) bailout of Greece in 2010 and 2012.