(23.Februar 2012) Greece‘s parliament voted on Thursday for an inquiry into claims the previous Socialist government inflated 2009 public deficit figures, a step that could put the reliability of the country‘s data back in the spotlight just days after it won a new bailout.

The upwards revision of Greece‘s budget deficit in 2009 to 15.4 percent of gross domestic product exposed to its euro zone partners the scale of its fiscal derailment and fuelled the debt crisis, raising fears over the fate of the euro currency union.