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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8653

26 February 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/eurostat
Favourable decision for Belgium on pensions

Brussels, 25/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - The transfer of company pensions to the State can be accounted for as budgetary income, said Eurostat on Wednesday. This decision should please Belgium, which took on Belgacom's pension fund. However, Eurostat stressed that such a transfer is neutral on the long term, because of the pension payments. The Belgian government evaluated its budgetary surplus as 0.3% of GDP for 2003, including the transfer to the State of five billion EUR held in the...

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