Author: justiceforgeorgiou

We have some good good news: Andreas has been acquitted, for the third time, by the Greek Council of Appeals on the charge of falsifying the 2009 budget data and causing Greece damage of 171 billion euro. Moreover, analysts at the Greek newspaper Kathimerini suggest that it will be difficult to open the case again,…

Six major statistical organizations join to issue a commendation for Andreas At a satellite meeting for the International Association for Official Statistics (IAOS) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, several statistical organizations joined together to issue a commendation to Andreas “to acknowledge Andreas Georgiou’s upholding of the highest professional standards…

llustrating the high stakes inherent in the resolution of the Georgiou case, there were key announcements about it in the days surrounding the decisions on the last tranche of Greek bailout funding for Greece (under the European Stability Mechanism). The International Association for Official Statistics issued what they termed an “unprecedented public statement”, signed by 80…

Our blog pages below begin to chronicle events starting in May of 2018.  For information about the preceeding period, this article by Tony Barber at the Independent provides a short summary of the saga, while also relating it to current events in the UK and USA.  For more comprehensive information dating back to 2011, see The…

On June 8, Andreas was informed that the Greek Supreme Court decided to render final and irreversible his conviction for not submitting the 2009 deficit and debt statistics to approval by a vote (this was judged to be a violation of duty, despite the fact that the European Statistics Code of Practice is very clear…