It was with some amusement that I learned about Eurostat¢s latest questioning of Greek data on the budget deficit. It comes after Eurostat¢s recent reversal of its own position on the recording of Greek military spending.
Your readers will recall that Eurostat accepted the present Greek government¢s curious admission that it could not obtain credible data on military equipment deliveries and permitted a switch to the cash payment method ? thereby inflating past deficits above the 3 per cent of GDP ceiling allowed by the EU¢s Stability and Growth Pact and prompting charges that Greece had \
