(As it emerges now, Goldman Sachs also similarly “helped” several other European governments.) Of course, the EU (and its dominant powers Germany and France) knew perfectly well what was going on. The recent exposé (starting in the New York Times) about Goldman Sachs helping the PASOK government of that time to disguise part of the public debt through currency swaps is tantamount to public admission of this. It was well known not only in Athens but also in Brussels that the Greek data - as well as those of Italy and several other EU members - were tampered with at the time of their introduction into the eurozone. The European Union (EU) condoned all this bragging.
Their leitmotivs differed a bit and there was of course the usual sparring between them, but the message was in fact the same.
Till very recently the two establishment parties (the center-left PASOK and the center-right ND) preached that their economic policies led Greece from strength to strength. The current Greek economic crisis has an aspect of ancient tragedy (for the Greek people) mixed with a bad theatrical farce (staged on behalf of the European and the Greek bourgeoisie).
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