Greece welcomes official EU confirmation of 2013 budget surplus

(Updates with markets in sixth paragraph. Read Eurostat's report here. For European debt news, click here.) April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Greek state debt surged to a euro- era record last year, underscoring the urgency of Prime Minister Antonis ...

Cyprus deficit shrank in 2013 while the public debt increased compared with 2012, the EU's statistical service, Eurostat, said on Wednesday. According to Eurostat data, the island's public deficit in 2013 was around €897 million or -5.4 per ...

New figures from Eurostat show a substantial reduction in fiscal deficits in the European Union and Eurozone in 2013 as a result of fiscal consolidation efforts. The Eurozone government deficit to ratio declined from 3.7 percent in 2012 to 3 ...

Finance Minister Edward Scicluna welcomed the confirmation by Eurostat and the National Statistics Office that the government had ended 2013 with a deficit rate of 2.8 per cent. It is a huge success not only for the government but also for the ...

Eurozone construction output growth eased sharply in February, data from Eurostat showed Tuesday. Construction output grew only 0.1 percent from January, when it was up by 1.6 percent. The decline was driven by a 0.4 percent fall in building ...

Eurozone industrial production expanded in February after remaining flat at the start of the year, Eurostat reported Monday. Driven by non-durable consumer goods and intermediate goods, industrial production grew 0.2 percent month-on-month in ...

The annual inflation in Cyprus marked an increase in March, remaining however negative, according to data released Wednesday by Eurostat. The Statistic Service of the EU notes that in March 2014, negative annual rates were observed in Bulgaria ...

The 18-member eurozone trade surplus rose to 13.6 billion euros (about 18.8 billion U.S. dollars) surplus in February, compared with 9.8 billion-euro surplus in the same period last year, European Union (EU)'s statistics office said Tuesday. The ...

Eurozone foreign trade surplus in February increased from a year ago, figures from Eurostat showed Tuesday. The unadjusted trade surplus rose to EUR 13.6 billion from EUR 9.8 billion in the same month last year. Economists had forecast a surplus ...