Bruxelles, 28/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - At a hearing at the European Parliament on Tuesday 27 March 2012, the troika of international lenders to Greece (the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF) warned that Greece would face huge implementation problems in practice if the country's politicians refused to take ownership of the spending cuts and structural reforms. EU Euro Commissioner Olli Rehn said it was unfair to blame Greece's problems on people who didn't arrive until after the damage had been done. Robert Goebbels (S&D, Luxembourg) described the three troika representatives as the three Chinese monkeys - See no evil, hear no evil, say no evil. Several MEPs accused the troika of encouraging austerity that was only making the economic recession worse and lengthening the dole queues. Hirsch (ALDE, Germany) talked about a “lost generation” in Greece, while Chountis (GUE/NGL, Greece) said the austerity programme had reduced living standards in Greece to as low as those in South-East Asia. (MB/transl.fl)