24/01/2013 (Agence Europe) - Greek deficit - Elstat defends itself. “The calculation of the 2009 fiscal deficit by Elstat, which Elstat announced in November 2010, has repeatedly and erroneously been 'connected' with the decision of Greece to request the assistance of eurozone member countries and of the IMF”, said Andreas Georgiou, the president of Elstat, the Greek statistics office, in a press release on Thursday 24 January 2013. He was responding to accusations that he had allowed...