Grecia sigue las medidas argentinas (pero de 2007)

Resulta que la crisis en Grecia estalló cuando los europeos se enteraron que el país había dibujado sus estadísticas fiscales. Ahora cuenta The Economist que el jefe de la agencia de estadísticas griega enfrenta una investigación criminal acusado de haber "inflado" los números del déficit.

EURO-ZONE finance ministers meeting today in Brussels are preparing to release Greece’s latest (and much-delayed) tranche of bail-out funding, worth €8 billion ($10.7 billion). But all is not well in the country that kicked off the long-running euro crisis. Andreas Georgiou, the head of Elstat, Greece’s statistics agency, is facing a criminal investigation for allegedly fiddling the public-finance books.

(...) Mr Georgiou stands accused of artificially upping Greece's 2009 budget-deficit figure from 13.4% to 15.8% of GDP, taking the country to the top of the euro zone's league of fiscal shame for that year. The revised estimates, say his detractors, meant that Greece was forced by its international partners to take ever-harsher austerity measures to receive bail-out funding. Mr Georgiou would make a useful scapegoat to many Greeks who have suffered over the past two years.

Hay gente que propone que Grecia siga los pasos de la Argentina de 2002. Pero parece que está siguiendo los de 2007.