The Greek state budget showed a primary surplus of 822 million euros in the
Inbound tourism grew 9.4 pct in January totaling 660,000
Greece will meet the 3.5 pct surplus target and therefore no pension cuts will be needed, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Thursday addressing the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
According to the budget estimates, there will be room to maintain part of the counter-measures in 2019 along with the ‘pension personal difference’ (recalculation of primary and supplementary pension rates), Parliamentary Budget Office Coordinator Fragiskos Koutentakis said on Monday in an inteview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agecy (ANA).
Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos expressed his absolute certainty that the European Commission will agree with the Greek government’s position to not implement pension cuts, while speaking to the radio station ’24/7′ on Monday.
Greek state budget showed a primary surplus of 2.752 billion euros in the January-February period, up from a budget target for a primary surplus of 1.307 billion and a primary surplus of 2.135 billion euros in the corresponding period last year, the finance ministry said in a report released on Wednesday.