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Cabinet approves 2025 Fiscal Programme, growth expected at 3.7% this year, Spokesperson says

The Cabinet approved the draft 2025 Fiscal Programme of the Republic, Government Spokesperson Konstantinos Letymbiotis has said, noting that growth this year is expected to reach 3.7%.

In statements after the 9 October meeting of the Cabinet, the Spokesman said that the Minister of Finance will submit the Fiscal Programme to the General Directorate of Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission.

He said that this is the second evaluation that takes place in the autumn of each year on the basis of plans and budget programmes submitted by the countries by October 15 each year. The evaluation, he said, concerns the revised, expected fiscal results for the current year and the revised forecasts, mainly for the next year, on the basis of the government's budget plan for the coming year.

The Spokesperson said that the EU evaluates the plans no later than November 30 each year. Based on the main macroeconomic scenario included in the draft fiscal program 2025, he said, the Cypriot economy is expected to grow at a rate of 3.7% in 2024 in real terms.

Inflation, based on the harmonized index of consumer prices, is expected to be 2.2% in 2024 and fall further to 2% in 2025-2027, he added.

Letymbiotis noted that the fiscal balance of the general government in 2024 is expected to have a surplus of 3.9% as a percentage of GDP.

Concluding, he said that public debt for 2024 is estimated to be 68.9% of GDP, compared to 77.4% of GDP at the end of the previous year.

(Source: CNA)

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