{"id":6359,"date":"2016-04-21T17:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2016-04-21T17:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T14:51:27","slug":"greeces-2015-primary-surplus-beats-bailout-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/6359","title":{"rendered":"Greece&#8217;s 2015 primary surplus beats bailout target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s 2015 primary surplus beats bailout target.\u0392eating the target set in its bailout programme,\u00a0Greece had a primary budget surplus before debt service last year, the European Commission said on Thursday after the EU statistics office released data on member states&#8217; budgets.<\/p>\n<p>A Commission spokeswoman said Athens recorded a primary surplus of 0.7 percent of Gross Domestic Product in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is in line with the Commission baseline and indeed substantially better than the programme&#8217;s fiscal target of a primary deficit of 0.25 percent of GDP for 2015,&#8221; the spokeswoman added.<\/p>\n<p>The primary balance is a key indicator to assess Greece&#8217;s progress in its third international financial rescue. The Greek government was pinning hopes of avoiding tougher austerity measures sought by the International Monetary Fund and euro zone lenders on achieving a better budget position. (Reporting by Francesco Guarascio; Editing by Paul Taylor).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/eurozone-greece-deficit-review-idUSB5N14R004?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=bondsNews\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s 2015 primary surplus beats bailout target.\u0392eating the target set in its bailout programme,\u00a0Greece had a primary budget surplus before debt service last year, the European Commission said on Thursday after the EU statistics office released data on member states&#8217; budgets. A Commission spokeswoman said Athens recorded a primary surplus of 0.7 percent of Gross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}