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The General Accounting Office sees a 4.1 percent of GDP primary surplus in 2019, exceeding the target by 0.6 percent, Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis said on Thursday in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA).
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Greece's primary budget surplus reached 4.14 percent of gross domestic product last year, based on the terms of the country's economic adjustment program, according to Finance Ministry officials.

According to provisionary figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authorities (ELSTAT), GDP growth was below projections for the second quarter of 2018 (1.8%), but higher than initially announced in June for the first quarter of the year (2.5% vs. 2.3%).