In 2008, government spending consumed 50.9 percent of economic output in Greece according to OECD fiscal data. That same year, Greece's score from Economic Freedom of the World was 7.12 (on a 0-10 scale), which was rather poor for a supposedly developed country and only #60 for all nations.
Then the fiscal crisis hit and Greece supposedly has atoned for its profligacy and gone through a tough period of "austerity" to reduce the burden of government spending and cut back on onerous levels of bureaucracy and red tape.
