Wesley Stevenson
speaker
1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
Wesley Stevenson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She says the Greek railways was a particularly bad example of this.
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That's right, he put the debts of 17 of these entities back on the books, and with a few other revisions, the deficit rose from 12% to 13% of GDP to 15.8%.
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Well, I put this to Miranda Zaffer.
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Now, some say the real reason that Andreas Georgiou is facing these charges actually comes down to politics, but not just the politics taking place in the Greek parliament, office politics.
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No, it's a...
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It's a little more serious than that.
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When Mr Georgiou was first parachuted in as the head of the Greek Statistics Authority, he faced resistance from the board over his revised figures.
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They wanted a say, they wanted a vote on it, and he said no, and this is when it got really messy.
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The board turned against Mr Georgiou.
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One board member has even been charged with hacking into his emails.
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What?
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One board member has been charged with email hacking.
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Wow.
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Yes, it's no wonder that Mr Georgiou once described Greek statistics as a combat sport.
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Eventually the board were fired and this resulted in strikes and protests and then ex-board member Professor Zoe Georgianta produced her own figures and this is when the accusations that Mr Georgiou artificially inflated the deficit first arose.
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Well, this is something I asked Dimitris Tsikalas, an MP with the opposition and anti-austerity party Syriza.
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He told me he doesn't believe Mr Georgiou wanted to inflate the deficit.
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He thinks he was told to do it by someone else.
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I asked him who.
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Why?
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