A Greek weekly, citing the troika and data from the outgoing finance ministry, says Greece replaced nearly every civil servant who has retired since 2010.
Although over 53,000 civil servants retired in 2010, the overall number of state staff was almost steady at 692,000 people, To Vima said …
Similarly, although another 40,000 staff left in 2011, the net reduction on the payroll was only 24,000.
By this time, Greece had promised to only hire one civil servant for every five that left