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Greece needs much more than a bank levy

News that a bank levy may be used to help fund Greece’s second rescue package suggests that eurozone policymakers are more concerned about appeasing taxpayers than adopting bold and decisive measures to try and get a grip on the region’s growing debt crisis.

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