deficit targets

23.05.2013 - 10.20 pm The Constitutional Court temporarily allows the Catalan tax on bank deposits but still halts the drug prescription fee The Spanish Constitutional Court has lifted the temporary suspension of the Catalan Government’s tax on total bank deposits while it is waiting to...	21.05.2013 - 10.42 pm Catalonia contributed with 8.5% of its GDP to infrastructures and services in the rest of Spain in 2010 On Tuesday, the Catalan Government posted the so-called fiscal balances for 2010, showing the difference between the money paid by Catalans in taxes...	16.05.2013 - 09.09 pm The Catalan Government ended the first quarter of 2013 with a deficit of 0.21% Between January and March, the Catalan Government had a budget deficit of €411 million, representing 0.21% of Catalonia’s GDP. The definitive deficit...	14.05.2013 - 10.18 pm The Catalan Government adapts the budget extension guidelines to a provisional 1.2% deficit As it was announced on Monday, the Catalan Government has adapted its budget extension guidelines to a higher deficit target, while it is waiting to...
13.05.2013 - 08.43 pm The Catalan and Spanish Governments confirm that no specific deficit target has been agreed on yet During the weekend, the Spanish Finance Minister, Cristóbal Montoro, stated that the Catalan Government’s deficit for 2013 will not be above 2%. The...	26.04.2013 - 10.06 pm The Spanish Government raises the deficit target for the Autonomous Communities from 0.7% to 1.2% for 2013 The deficit target for Spain’s entire public sector has also been raised from 4.5% to 6.3%. The Spanish Government has kept 81% of the deficit for...	09.04.2013 - 10.05 pm The Spanish Socialist Party backs a constitutional reform but rejects allowing Catalonia’s self-determination vote The leader of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE), Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, and the President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, secretly met on...	03.04.2013 - 10.20 pm The Catalan President insists on talking to the Spanish Government about the self-determination claims Artur Mas, the President of the Catalan Government and leader of the Centre-Right Catalan Nationalist Coalition (CiU), is sceptical about the Spanish...
27.03.2013 - 08.41 pm Catalonia’s Supreme Court cancels the tender allocating Greater Barcelona’s water supply to Acciona In early November, the Catalan Government decided to allocate the public tender privatising the service of the publicly-owned Aigües Ter-Llobregat –...	27.03.2013 - 07.29 pm The Spanish Prime Minister and the Catalan President secretly met and agreed to relax the deficit targets According to Catalan and Spanish Government sources, the Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and the President of the Catalan Executive, Artur Mas...	21.03.2013 - 10.41 pm The Spanish Government will relax the Autonomous Communities’ deficit targets and is open to setting them on individual basis The Spanish Finance Minister, Crístobal Montoro, confirmed that if Brussels relaxes Spain’s total deficit target for 2013, he will share this...	11.03.2013 - 10.11 pm The Catalan Finance Minister stated it is "impossible" to draft a budget with a deficit of 0.7% Andreu Mas-Colell, the Catalan Government’s Finance Minister, emphasised that a 0.7% deficit objective means implementing an additional budget...
28.02.2013 - 09.04 pm The Catalan Government had a 1.96% deficit in 2012, according to the Spanish Finance Ministry The Catalan Government has reduced its deficit by half over the last year, dropping from a 4.02% figure to a deficit of only 1.96%. However, despite...	21.02.2013 - 09.36 pm The Catalan Government posts a 2% deficit for 2012, correcting the previous preliminary figure A month ago, the Catalan Government issued a preliminary deficit figure for last year of 2.3%. Now, the Catalan Finance Minister, Andreu Mas-Colell,...	13.02.2013 - 09.44 pm The Catalan Government plans to save €700 million by reducing civil servants’ salaries and not replacing vacancies The Catalan Executive has provided details of how it will adjust €4 billion of its 2013 budget in order to meet the deficit target imposed by the...	31.01.2013 - 09.13 pm The Catalan President emphasises the fact that his meeting with the King of Spain shows Catalonia’s “willingness to talk” The President of the Catalan Government, Artur Mas, and the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, met on Thursday for the first time since Mas was re-elected...