To plug the gap the three governing parties, the conservative New Democracy, PanHellenic Socialist Movement and Democratic Left, may have to rip out a key plank in their joint policy-platform: a deal ruling out further across-the-board wage cuts for the civil service.

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This was a key plank of the so-called Volcker Rule, named after Paul Volcker, Chairman of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, who proposed it.

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