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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11842
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NEWS BRIEFS / Greece

Eurogroup to study decision of Athens appeal court sentencing Andreas Georgiou to two years in prison

02/08/2017 (Agence Europe)Following the decision of the Athens appeal court on Tuesday 1 August handing Andreas Georgiou, the former chairman of the country’s statistics agency (Elstat), a two-year suspended prison sentence in connection with the transmission of Greece's 2009 budget data to Eurostat (see EUROPE 11841), Annika Breidhardt, a spokesperson for the European Commission, said on Wednesday 2 August that this decision would be studied within the framework of Eurogroup and...