Policy simulation.
Explore assumptions. Understand the accounting effects.
Improving
A favourable change under this indicator’s stated rule, compared with the same period one year earlier.
Lower unemployment or debt/GDP is positive. Higher employment or a smaller trade deficit is also positive.
Green does not always mean the number increased.
Worsening
An unfavourable change under this indicator’s stated rule, compared with the same period one year earlier.
Higher unemployment or debt/GDP is negative. Inflation moving further from the dashboard’s 2% reference is also negative.
Red describes the observed change, not its cause or the country’s overall condition.
Unchanged / context needed
No improvement or deterioration is assigned. The value may be unchanged, its meaning ambiguous, or the comparison unavailable or delayed.
Imports can rise because of demand or investment, so they remain neutral. Missing or delayed comparisons also remain neutral.
Neutral does not mean good, bad, or zero.
Change assumptions for the same reporting year. Results are accounting scenarios, not official statistics or predictions of policy effects.
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Rate references and scope
Reference only: AADE lists a 5% dividend rate; the Ministry of Labour lists a €920 minimum monthly wage from April 2026. Exemptions and the selected historical year can change applicability. Wage fields are not filled with a historical rate automatically.
AADE ↗Minimum wage source ↗Your assumptions
Additional accounting adjustments
These adjustments are added to the policy package. Do not enter the same change twice.
Hypothetical results
SCENARIOChanges are relative to the selected official baseline. A stronger fiscal balance alone does not establish better public services or wellbeing.
All amounts and comparison
How the GDP assumption changes the debt ratio
The debt amount stays fixed at your scenario value. Only the GDP assumption changes along this line.
Assumptions, formulas and official baseline
Revenue and non-interest spending changes are entered in billions of euros. Interest changes are added once to total spending. GDP changes are nominal, not inflation-adjusted.
The balance changes by extra revenue minus extra non-interest spending minus extra interest. The original difference between published balance and revenue minus spending is preserved.
Debt changes by the opposite of the balance change, plus the other debt changes you enter. By default all marginal financing changes affect gross debt. Financial-asset transactions, valuation effects and other adjustments can change this relationship.
No tax elasticities, growth multipliers, employment effects, distributional effects or automatic interest-rate responses are estimated. GDP is an independent assumption. This is a same-year counterfactual, not a path into future years.
Saved comparison stays only in this page session and is cleared when the baseline year changes. Nothing is sent to a server.
Eurostat: deficit and debt methodology ↗Greece economic policy simulator
Explore policy scenarios for Greece and their accounting effects. Adjust assumptions in an illustrative simulator, not an official economic forecast.
Greece OS is an independent application presenting public data, not an official government website. Reporting periods differ by indicator. The interactive dashboards show available observations, definitions and sources.