Greek debt-crisis woes worsen

Civil servants staged a 24-hour strike Thursday against austerity measures and expected job cuts by Greece's crisis-plagued government, while the EU's statistics agency added to the financially stricken country's woes, revising its budget deficit upwards.

Eurostat said Greece's budget deficit in 2009 was 13.6 percent of gross domestic product, instead of the previously predicted 12.9 percent, while the ratio of government debt to GDP stood at 115.1 percent, the second highest in the EU after Italy.

The agency also expressed "a reservation on the quality of the data reported by Greece," and said the 2009 figures could be revised further, to the …