EU defends Greek data as statistician faces court

The EU insisted Wednesday that Greek economic data were reliable after Greece's top court reopened a case against the ex-head of the state statistics agency for exaggerating deficit figures. Marianne Thyssen, the European Commissioner for social affairs, urged the Greek government to "challenge the false impression" that the figures were fiddled under Andreas Georgiou. "It is absolutely clear that data on Greek government debt during 2010-2015 have been fully reliable and accurately reported to