Eurostat Concerned About Greek Statistics Developments

The European Union’s statistics office said it was watching with “deep concern” developments in Greece, where the head of the statistics agency faces felony charges over reporting of the country’s 2009 budget deficit.

Hellenic Statistical Authority data submitted under its current chief, Andreas Georgiou, “have repeatedly passed the stringent quality checks applied by Eurostat to ensure full compliance with European law,” the European Statistical System, an association of national statistics agencies and Eurostat, said in an e-mailed statement today.