Bureaucracy stands in Greece's way

Athens

YANNIS Stamatiou is one of this country's many business owners who say that Greece's economic problems are not just about austerity.

Just ask him about the bureaucracy, which the new government has vowed to streamline but is a snarl of rules, decades in the making, that could prove hard to untangle.

Mr Stamatiou recalled with disgust his trip last summer to a dingy tax office in sout…