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Increased revenues push Greek budget primary surplus up to 2.28 bln at end of July

Greece’s budget primary surplus widened to 2.28 billion euros in the 7-month period from 707 million posted in the first half of the year, according to the final budget execution bulletin released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF).
Thursday’s data confirms preliminary figures published on August 13 and means that the primary surplus target was beaten by 1.48 billion euros.
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