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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8830

19 November 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/emu/greece
Ecofin Council may authorise Greece to wait till 2006 before returning below 3% mark - Costas Simitis criticises government for statistics review

Brussels, 18/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - Greek Finance Minister Georgios Alogoskoufis, who stated his intention on Monday to bring the public deficit down from 5.3% in 2004 to 2.8% of GDP by 2005 thanks to the fact that spending linked to the Olympic Games and other measures will be at an end, announced on Wednesday that euro zone ministers had envisaged extending the time allowed for Greece to achieve this. During a press conference, Thursday's Financial Times said, Mr Alogoskoufis pointed...

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