On Thursday 20 July, the statistical office of the European Union (Eurostat) published its government deficit and debt estimates for the first quarter of 2017.
According to Eurostat, the (seasonally adjusted) government deficit is down in the Eurozone in the first three months of the year. It stands at 0.9% of GDP, compared to 1.1% of GDP in the fourth quarter of 2016. Taken as a whole at EU level, government deficit is 1.0% of GDP for the first quarter of 2017, or 0.2% less than in the...