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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10573
ECONOMY - FINANCE / (ae) spain

Room for manœuvre on Spanish deficit in 2012 but not 2013

Brussels, 13/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - The Eurogroup is calling on Spain to make extra public spending cuts in order to reduce its deficit from 8.5% of GDP to 5.3% in 2012, but will not budge on the need to bring the deficit back below the 3% cut-off point in 2013. “The Eurogroup assesses that timely correction of the excessive deficit should be ensured by additional frontloaded effort to the order of 0.5% of GDP beyond what has already been announced by the Spanish authorities so far”,...

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