dominique straus-khan is a dominant player. he's one of two key players around this area along with jean claude tree shaichet. john lisky will oversee an informal board meeting waiting for the results of the court hearing in new york. so a lot of intrigue. but it's absolutely the worst timing coming into the debt restructuring charges here in brussels. >> fully functional, but straus-khan undoubtedly had some really good personal relationships with the eu leaders. he was able to push through a lot of deals and negotiations. when it comes to bailing out countries like portugal and now potentially even greece, what happens to something like this in terms of the momentum that he had created? >> well, two comments. fully separational and functional is controlled by the imf. but some openers thought they were basically leaving their managing director out to dry, that they could move ahead without him because it's such a severe charge. secondly, we had a comment from the minister of labor in greece going through the restructuring. sh