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by bagosm 4151 days ago
That's actually not true, you are referring to a very bad "cooking" that Samaras presented to Merkel at the fall of '14 which was proved to be too stupid to talk about ever again...
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Actually that is true. He was referring to Greece having a budget surplus, not a plan. They missed their target surplus but still had a budget surplus for 2014 of near 2 billion euros.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-misses-target-on-budget-s...

The current finance minister says they cooked the books: yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014/04/24/greek-statistics-are-back-primary-deficit-presented-as-surplus-with-eurostats-seal-of-approval/
Your link is about a 2013 budget surplus and not 2014. The reason eurostat did those adjustment was too eliminate one off expenditures that would not continue. And they didn't continue in 2014.