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Cover -- The Political Commissioner: A European Ethnography -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- Introduction -- Jean-claude Juncker's Gamble -- The Most Political Commissioner Of The Political Commission? -- Political Work Under Constraint -- Political Work And Its Effects -- The Art Of Politics -- Notes -- 1: The Moscos -- The Brussels Cabinet -- The Cabinet Meeting -- A Week In The Life Of The French Cabinet -- The Boss -- The Staff -- The Brussels People -- The Parisians -- Esprit De Corps -- Methodology For An Ethnographic Narrative -- Notes 2: Facing Varoufakis: Greece, 2009-2015 -- From Improvisation To Exhaustion (2009-14) -- Enter The Troika -- The Second Program -- To Cut Or To Reform? -- All Quiet On The Greek Front? -- The Winter Of Chaos -- A Misunderstanding -- Referendum Betrayed -- The Varoufakis Story -- An Alternative Within The Program? -- Notes -- 3: We Have To Build A Success Story: Greece, 2015-2019 -- Between Athens, Berlin, And Washington -- What Reforms? -- Good Cop, Bad Cop -- The Conflict With The Imf -- Is A Political Approach Credible? -- A Second Review That Goes On And On -- Compromise Over A Meal Toward Exit -- The End Of The Program -- Toward Normalization -- A Fourth Program Under A New Name? -- In Athens -- Visiting Tsipras -- Syntagma Square -- So You Wanted To See A Commissioner Who Does Politics? There You Have It! -- Notes -- 4: A Socialist, French Commissioner -- From French Politician To European Commissioner -- The First Test -- Because It Is France -- Bercy's Liability -- Europe In The Berlaymont Press Room: That's What Killed It -- The Last French Socialist? -- Hollande And Macron -- The First European Socialist? -- The Battle Of The Spitzenkandidaten Being A Socialist Is Difficult -- Notes -- 5: Discipline, Not Punish: Budget Disputes With Spain And Portugal -- The Stability And Growth Pact, In Theory -- The Stability And Growth Pact In Practice -- Iberian Politics At The Commission -- Conserv