{"id":62100,"date":"2013-09-23T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T08:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2013\/09\/23\/239389\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:07:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:07:05","slug":"greece-and-lenders-expect-2013-budget-surplus-greek-finance-ministry-source-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2013\/09\/23\/62100\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece and lenders expect 2013 budget surplus &#8211; Greek finance ministry source: Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 23. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Greece and its lenders are close to agreeing that Greece will achieve a primary budget surplus this year, a senior Finance Ministry official told reporters on Sunday after senior Greek and EU and IMF officials met.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting a primary budget surplus, before interest payments, is key for Greece because it would trigger a clause in its EU\/IMF bailout allowing it to seek further debt relief from its lenders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we are close to converging on a common, realistic estimate that there will be a small, viable primary budget surplus this year,&#8221; the official said on condition of anonymity, after the first meeting in the latest review of Greece&#8217;s bailout by its lenders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are four or five budget items on which we still have to fully agree,&#8221; the official added.<\/p>\n<p>The latest review by officials from the &#8220;troika&#8221; of European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank is expected to last at least until the end of next month.<\/p>\n<p>Athens and its lenders are also very close to agreeing on a joint economic growth forecast for 2013 and 2014, the official said, without revealing the estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Athens said on Thursday that it expected its economy to shrink by 3.8 percent this year, less than a previous estimate of 4.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said the economy may have bottomed out after a severe, six-year recession, citing government estimates that GDP had expanded on a quarter-on-quarter basis in the second quarter. \u20130&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece and its lenders are close to agreeing that Greece will achieve a primary budget surplus this year, a senior Finance Ministry official told reporters on Sunday after senior Greek and EU and IMF officials met<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[12696,13517,15424],"class_list":{"0":"post-62100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-finance-ministry","10":"tag-greek","11":"tag-reuters-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}