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Greek economy up 25% - with a little help from prostitutes
Greece, whose ancient civilisation introduced the world to high class prostitutes in the sixth century BC, has at last decided to salute their contribution to society.
Athens has announced that its economy is 25% bigger than thought thanks, in part, to the round-the-clock duties of the country's prostitutes, who were known as hetairai in ancient times.
The Greek authorities are revising the country's gross domestic product (GDP) after deciding that the black market should be included in the figures.
Manolis Kontopyrakis, the head of the national statistics service, told Reuters: "The revised GDP will include some money from illegal activities, such as money from cigarette and drinks smuggling, prostitution and money laundering."
Greece's economic output was €180bn (£128bn) in 2005 and is expected to rise to €194bn this year. The black economy is estimated at up to €60bn, according to Reuters.
The new figures are the result of Greece's determination to avoid a ticking off from the EU, which has the right to impose hefty fines on a eurozone country if its budget deficit rises above 3% of GDP. By boosting the size of its economy the Greek deficit will fall from 2.1% of GDP to 1.9%. Without the change the deficit would have fallen from 2.6% of GDP to 2.4%, according to the Financial Times.
Joaquim Almunia, the European monetary affairs commissioner, who is used to GDP revisions of 1%-2%, is said to be wary of Greece's action.
His spokeswoman said yesterday that the new figures would need to be examined by Eurostat, the EU's statistics agency.
The move raised eyebrows in Brussels because Athens famously used false statistics to meet the Maastricht criteria, thereby allowing it to join the euro. Charles Grant, the director of the Centre for European Reform, said: "It is on the public record that the statistics used which allowed Greece to join the euro were exposed as false. I remember Jacques Delors [the former European commission president] saying in the early 1990s that Greece was not ready to join the EU in 1981."
But Mr Grant said Greece should be taken more seriously now. "There was a real transformation in the mid-1990s. They cleared up corruption and spent EU funds wisely.
"The announcement reminds me of the sorpasso a decade ago when Italy said that it had overtaken the UK because it was counting the black economy in its statistics. That was taken seriously but Britain is now way ahead of Italy."
While the new figures will allow Greece to escape possible fines for running a high deficit, the country will pay for its honesty in other ways.
"Greece will be a victim because it will lose structural funds and will have to pay more into the EU budget," Mr Grant said. "I think we should therefore take them seriously."
Nicholas Watt in Brussels
The Guardian, Saturday 30 September 2006