I have a question regarding Greece, and it might need roots pre-1900 to get it done. My question is, which changes would need to take place so that 2012 Greece does not have the fiscal mess it's in now, and is roughly fiscally conservative? By that, I mean that they are not facing a debt crisis, and they keep budget deficits of less than 5-10% over the majority of the 20th century, and may have had some surplus years.
I'm looking for anything post 1800 preferably.
I think I saw a timeline on this somewhere where the dodecanese or something else led to the formation of the Greek Republic, but I can't find that timeline here. The second question is, would there be any difference if this Greece held Constantinople, and the Aegean coastline of OTL Turkey? (I don't think it would, but might be something of a prestige thing).