30/01/2003 (Agence Europe) - The German Minister of the Economy and Work, Wolgang Clement, declared on Wednesday that with the new government forecast for growth, the public deficit of the country would probably reach 2.85% of GDP in 2003. The German government is now forecasting growth of 1.0% in 2003 as opposed to 1.5% previously forecast (and 2.75% of public deficit). Mr Clement repeated that the deficit in his country should be situated under the reference value (3% of GDP) and that the...