ATHENS (Reuters) – Economist Andreas Georgiou knew his job would not be easy. It was when he discovered his emails were being hacked and leaked that the real challenge of taming his country’s approach to official statistics hit home.

Hired in 2010 to reform the discredited Greek Statistics Authority ELSTAT, Georgiou discovered the e-mail breach weeks into the job.

ATHENS, March 14 (Reuters) – Economist Andreas Georgiou knew
his job would not be easy. It was when he discovered his emails
were being hacked and leaked that the real challenge of taming
his country’s approach to official statistics hit home.

Hired in 2010 to reform the discredited Greek Statistics
Authority ELSTAT, Georgiou discovered the e-mail breach weeks
into the job.

ATHENS, Jan 24 (Reuters) – Greece’s government on Thursday
backed its embattled statistics chief, accused in felony charges
of artificially inflating budget deficit figures to make the
country’s debt crisis appear worse.

Greek statistics agency ELSTAT head Andreas Georgiou has
denied wrongdoing and the European Union’s own Eurostat
statistics agency has defended him, saying the deficit was
calculated in line with its standards.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece must resist internal political pressure to slow economic reforms in a year that will dictate whether it avoids bankruptcy, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told Reuters in an interview.

With EU partners starting to praise Greek efforts to exit its worst crisis in decades and some economic indicators showing fledgling signs of recovery, demands are increasing on the government to give up crippling austerity and reforms.

ATHENS, Jan 17 (Reuters) – Greece must resist internal
political pressure to slow economic reforms in a year that will
dictate whether it avoids bankruptcy, Finance Minister Yannis
Stournaras told Reuters in an interview.

With EU partners starting to praise Greek efforts to exit
its worst crisis in decades and some economic indicators showing
fledgling signs of recovery, demands are increasing on the
government to give up crippling austerity and reforms.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Unidentified attackers opened fire on the Athens headquarters of Greece’s governing New Democracy party with a Kalashnikov assault rifle early on Monday, in what the government said was a worrying escalation in political violence.

Police said a bullet pierced the window of the office that conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras maintains in the building near the city centre, but no one was hurt.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Unidentified attackers opened fire on the Athens headquarters of Greece’s governing New Democracy party with a Kalashnikov assault rifle early on Monday, in what the government said was a worrying escalation in political violence.

Police said a bullet pierced the window of the office that conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras maintains in the building near the city centre, but no one was hurt.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Unidentified attackers opened fire on the headquarters of Greece’s governing New Democracy party with a Kalashnikov assault rifle early on Monday, in what the government said was a worrying escalation in political violence.

Police said a bullet pierced the window of the political office that conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras maintains in the building, but no-one was hurt.

ATHENS (Reuters) – In late 2011 the Greek finance minister made an impassioned plea for help to rescue his country from financial ruin.

“We need a national collective effort: all of us have to carry the burden together,” announced Evangelos Venizelos, who has since become leader of the socialist party PASOK. “We need something that will be fair and socially acceptable.”

ATHENS (Reuters) – In late 2011 the Greek finance minister made an impassioned plea for help to rescue his country from financial ruin.

“We need a national collective effort: all of us have to carry the burden together,” announced Evangelos Venizelos, who has since become leader of the socialist party PASOK. “We need something that will be fair and socially acceptable.”