Ten member states, eight of them from the Eurozone, recorded a budgetary surplus in 2016, according to official figures published by the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat) on Monday 21 April.
In decreasing order of budgetary surplus, the countries concerned are: Luxembourg (+1.6% of GDP), Malta (+1.0%), Sweden (+0.9%), Germany (+0.8%), Greece (+0.7%), the Czech Republic (+0.6%), Cyprus and the Netherlands (+0.4% each) and Estonia and Lithuania (+0.3%). Latvia and Bulgaria...