Brussels, 14/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - On 14 July, the Greek Finance Ministry announced that Greece had exceeded its budgetary targets for the first half of the year, registering a primary surplus of €712 million, against a target of a deficit of €635 million. “The budgetary targets have been reached for the third consecutive year”, said Christos Staikouras, Deputy Finance Minister.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had said in early July that the country was doing better than...