These budget surplus targets take into account significant tax reductions planned for the period until 2002 .

These budget surplus targets take into account a significant tax reduction and government expenditure increase in 2002 .

Compared with the previous year , the fiscal surplus has decreased by 0.8 percentage point , while the debt ratio has increased marginally .

In Austria the deficitto GDP ratio increased in 1998 , and in Luxembourg the budgetary surplus declined .

The troika is still demanding that Greece achieve a primary budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of 3.5 of GDP by 2018.

Maintaining a sufficient surplus until 2015 is a pillar of Sweden 's strategy to cope with the fiscal pressure emerging from demographic ECB Convergence Report 2002

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Three non euro area Member States ( Denmark , Estonia and Sweden ) recorded a fiscal surplus , whereas the other ten countries registered f iscal def icits .

FISCAL POLICIES Three non euro area EU Member States ( Estonia , Denmark and Sweden ) recorded a fiscal surplus and ten countries recorded fiscal deficits in 2004 .

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Greece largely succeeded in following the dictate set by the troika (the European Commission the ECB, and the IMF) it converted a primary budget deficit into a primary surplus.

According to the Irish medium term fiscal policy strategy , as stated in the Convergence Programme for 1997 99 updated in December 1997 , a somewhat declining budget surplus and a declining debt ratio are expected in 1998 .

Budget balance ratios remained broadly stable in Belgium , Ireland and Portugal between 1998 and 1999 , whereas more significant progress was made in the remaining countries with the exception of Luxembourg , where the budget surplus to GDP ratio declined .

Compared with the previous year , the fiscal balance has improved by 1.4 57 percentage points , moving into surplus , while the debt ratio has fallen by 5.5 percentage points .

However , the primary surplus in 2002 will remain at the 1999 level , despite the anticipation of a favourable cyclical environment , thus showing no further enhancement of fiscal consolidation efforts .

Compared with the previous year , the budget surplus remained constant as a share of GDP and the debt ratio decreased substantially by 6.9 percentage points .

With a modest fiscal deficit, record low borrowing costs, and a huge current account surplus, Germany has the financial firepower to unleash a significant stimulus.

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According to the Swedish medium term fiscal policy strategy , as presented in the latest review of the Convergence Programme for 1995 2000 dated September 1997 , the general government financial position is expected to be in surplus in 1998 and the debt ratio is planned to decrease further .

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That's a yearly surplus of 40,000 of people.

under both the monetary pillar and the economic and fiscal pillar .

improved only marginally . As this improvement was less than the effect of economic growth on tax revenues and unemployment expenditures would have suggested , the cyclically adjusted primary budget surplus declined slightly .

Notes The gross operating surplus relates to gross operating surplus plus mixed income for the whole economy .

In 2006 the ECB earned a surplus of Euros 1,379 million , compared with a surplus of Euros 992 million in 2005 .

In 2007 the ECB earned a surplus of Euros 286 million compared with a surplus of Euros 1,379 million in 2006 .

The objective is to gradually achieve a budgetary surplus in good times which creates the necessary room to accommodate economic downturns and thus contribute to the long term sustainability of public finances.

The objective is to gradually achieve a budgetary surplus in good times which creates the necessary room to accommodate economic downturns and thus contribute to the long term sustainability of public finances .