Amendment to this article...

In the news again is the European crisis subsequent to the election of the leftist government in Greece. In particular, the Greek Minister of Finance, Dr. Yanis Varoufakis, has broken rank with the clubby and quiet world of European Union negotiators. This story is reported in the Wall Street Journal 18 February 2015: http://www.wsj.com/articles/greek-minister-yanis-varoufakiss-style-irks…

Note this quote in particular that is strong support for what I have written above:

"In the clubby world of eurozone officialdom, personal relationships matter; problems are rarely aired in public, and decisions are made through consensus, often guided by arcane rules hammered out over the last five years of crisis."