ATHENS: The state budget showed a deficit of 928 million Euros this year compared to a surplus of 105 million Euros last year and the Greece state budget primary surplus dropped to 503 billion Euros in the first two months of 2015.The primary surplus in the correspondence period was 1.68 billion Euros last year.
According to Bank of Greece (BoG) figures, the state budget deficit this year amounted to 684 million Euros compared to the 139 millions surplus recorded last year.
Similarly, revenues of the ordinary budget amounted to 6.735 billion Euros during the first two months of 2015 which was 7.95 billion last year. Regarding the costs of the regular budget, it amounted to 7.677 billion Euros from 8.630 billion between January and February 2014.