For the first time in... well... pretty much forever, Greece's central government actually had a small surplus in 2016.  Not just a "primary surplus" (ie excluding debt repayments) but an actual surplus.

Unfortunately they still went about 3 billion Euro deeper into debt.  How?  I'm not quite sure, trying to sort out exactly what is happening with government finances is always a difficult exercise but with Greece it is nearly impossible.  I would guess it had something to do with capital expenditures that tend to be counted off-budget (Canadian governments do this as well, particularly at the Provincial level, eg. Ontario is expecting a "balanced" budget while going $10B deeper into debt this year).