The deficit in 1999 has been revised upwards to 3.4%, thereby exceeding the 3%-limit. The deficit figures originally reported by the Greek government for 2001-2003 were between 1.4% and 1.7%; these figures were corrected in March 2005 to between 3.6% (2001) and 5.2 % (2003).
•  The picture is not always perfectly clear and so we have added new measures of ex ante, or before the fact, uncertainty to our five most critical projection variables.