The Prime Minister held this Wednesday that Portugal will record in 2015 of less than 3% deficit, but warned of the possibility of failing to meet this goal by 2016, if the extraordinary government measures are withdrawn suddenly. “If any of this [extraordinary measures] exist in 2016, so there will be a tendency for us to not fulfill the goal of having a deficit below 3% and then we may have problems, not with the growth of the economy, which will grow to more than what the government has planned, but can you return to certain macroeconomic imbalances, “he said. The prime minister, who was speaking at a hotel in the Algarve, in the conference marking 45 years of the Algarve Tourism Board (RTA), said that the prospects presented today at a Board of Public Finance Report (CFP) “coincide with what that the Government presented, “which” credence “to his proposal for macroeconomic scenario included in the State Budget for 2015.

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