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Thursday, August 25, 2016

EU violating Greek constitution in statistics row

A Greek minister accused the European Commission on Thursday of violating the country's constitution when it called on Athens to quash allegations that its former statistics agency chief had rigged data to help creditors. The intervention by Deputy Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos added fuel to a spat between Athens and the Commission over former statistics chief Andreas Georgiou. Georgiou, a former International Monetary Fund statistician, was highly regarded in Brussels when he ran the Greek statistics agency ELSTAT during five years of economic crisis until 2015.


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