Differences between forecasts and actual performance regarding EU Member States adherence to the Maastricht criteria: The Greek Case

The truth may be hidden behind a set of variables strongly intertwined, such as the precarious state of the Greek statistical institutes who had the task of monitoring the condition of the country in order to report to the Commission, perhaps the failure by the Council and Commission to clearly assess the trend of the national budget, and perhaps the desire to accommodate the Hellenic Republic - birthplace of western culture, home for centuries and centuries of democracy, Western philosophy, medicine, historiography, theater and founder of the mathematical principles and of the Olympic Games in 776 BC, within the Eurosystem.