GREEK STATISTICS
December 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has announced it will table accounting reforms for all European Union (EU) national statistics offices, following the recent revelation of errors in Greece's public spending figures. The proposals will underline national offices' "independence, integrity and accountability", granting EU statistical agency Eurostat control and inspection rights. This follows the discovery that Greece's achievement of government deficit ratios required for using the EU's Euro single currency was based on false figures. A Eurostat report said ...
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