Another
conflict is taking place lately between Greek officials and the
European Financial Dictatorship (EFD) representatives, concerning a
key man who allegedly cooked Greece's statistics back in 2009 and
forced Greece to enter the hellish path of Troika (EFD-IMF-ECB)
creditors.
From
washpost.bloomberg.com
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The European Union defended Greece’s
budget data as concern mounts that a court case against the former
head of the Greek statistical agency will reignite market
doubts about the credibility of the country’s fiscal numbers.
The European Commission vouched for
data submitted by the Hellenic Statistical Authority [Elstat]
from 2010 to 2015 and validated by EU statistics office Eurostat.
The period coincides with the tenure at the top of the Greek
agency of Andreas Georgiou, who faces felony charges in Greece for
reporting a 2009 budget deficit that was more than five times the
EU limit and that unleashed the euro-area debt crisis.
“Data on Greek government debt
during the period 2010-2015 have been fully reliable and
accurately reported,” European Commissioner Marianne
Thyssen, who oversees Eurostat, told reporters on Wednesday in
Brussels. “We expect the Greek authorities to actively and
publicly challenge the false impression that data were manipulated
during the 2010-2015 period.” The issue is
politically sensitive across Europe because Greece allegedly
manipulated its fiscal numbers to qualify for euro entry in 2001
and became dependent in 2010 on international emergency loans,
which have flowed for the past six years in return for widespread
budget cuts. The aid for
Greece is underpinned by the fiscal data of Greece’s statistical
agency, also known as Elstat.
Georgiou, who stepped down as
Elstat’s chief last year when his term ended, faces some
domestic political critics who allege that he inflated Greece’s
2009 deficit figure of 15.6 percent of gross domestic product.
[...]
Thyssen
said on Wednesday that the commission, the EU’s executive arm,
has sent a letter to the Greek government stressing the importance
of preserving the quality of Greek budget statistics. She said
false allegations “may
create major damage to the credibility of Greek statistics.”
The Greek government responded coolly to Thyssen’s remarks,
confirming in an e-mailed statement that Finance Minister Euclid
Tsakalotos had received a letter from the commission, saying he
was surprised by it and pledging to respect the independent
operations of the Greek judiciary.
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More and
more evidence comes on surface that Greece was artificially trapped
into a debt crisis that permitted neoliberal establishment to conduct
the most brutal experiment, for the first time in an advanced
economic area.
The anxiety
of the EFD officials to cover up an important parameter in the Greek
crisis case is more than obvious. Their efforts include indirect
threats - “... will reignite market doubts about the
credibility of the country's fiscal numbers”, as
well as an attempt to intervene in the work of Greek justice.
Apparently, they don't want further research concerning the key man,
Andreas Georgiou, because this could bring crucial evidence on how
Greece has been transformed into a debt colony.
Therefore,
it could spoil efforts to expand further the Greek experiment
(already "intruded" in France)
to the whole eurozone.
Note that
Panagiotis Lafazanis,
leader of Popular
Unity, the party that came out
of SYRIZA's split, expressing its most radical side, stated that the
support of the European Commission on Andreas Georgiou, through
unacceptable and anti-constitutional intervention, is logical,
obvious and expectable. This is because Andreas Georgiou was the IMF
official and its man who have been “planted” in Elstat by the
Government of George Papandreou, with the consensus of New Democracy
too, just to serve the Troika, not the reasonable and legal Greek
interests.
He also
stated that Andreas Georgiou, through his service in Elstat,
delivered Greece to the German EU and IMF, as the scapegoat and
memoranda guinea pig for their plans of the general social and labor
demolition of Europe.
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