Admittedly, the stimulus from the forthcoming Olympic Games and the inflow of EU structural funds has contributed to the good economic performance; but I think it is true to say that endogenous factors have been significantly more important.
Public expenditure on the Olympic Games, amounting to just over 1% of GDP in the last few years, has also had the negative effect of raising the fiscal deficit to about its upper limit of 3%, set by the European Treaty, and has also intensified inflationary expectations.