Norway sees budget surplus of 15.7 billion euros in 2005
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Norway's center-right government presented a draft 2005 budget that contained a comfortable surplus thanks to the country's massive energy resources.
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The Italian parliament approved on Wednesday the country's 2005 budget which includes tax cuts worth 6.5 billion euros (8.6 billion US dollars) and caps on government spending.
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Spain posted a budget surplus for a third consecutive year, topping 2.0 percent of gross domestic product for 2007, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Saturday.
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The UK's current account deficit falls to Â£7bn ($13.2bn) in the second quarter of 2006, official figures show.
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A look at projected spending for the government's 2005 budget year, which began Oct. 1, and in 2014, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government is on pace to record a budget surplus of at least &#36;8.9 billion when the fiscal year ends in March, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale announced Tuesday.
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Oil-rich Saudi Arabia will use this year's expected budget surplus to repay some of its public debt, the finance minister said in remarks published.
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Finns spent a cool 2.7 billion euros on homes in the first half of the year - 12 per cent more than a year ago.
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Germany's finance minister presented a 2005 budget Tuesday that boosts government spending and foresees record interest payments on the national debt, but still aims to get the country back under European Union deficit limits.
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TOKYO,  - Japan&#39;s cabinet adopted an austere 798 billion-dollar budget for the year to March 2006 amid concerns over the country&#39;s economic health and outlook as key export growth slows.
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Canada recorded aC$9.1 billion ($7.9 billion) budget surplus in fiscal 2004, five times the government&#39;s forecast, as accelerating economic growth generated a tax windfall for Finance Minister Ralph Goodale.
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Serbia's government is seeking support from parliament for its 2005 budget, which includes tax breaks, more welfare benefits and a "modest" deficit.
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The U.S. government began the 2005  fiscal year with a budget shortfall, right after posting a  record $412.28 billion budget gap for all of the 2004 budget  year, a report on Wednesday showed.
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LONDON : Britain&#39;s budget deficit ballooned last month, when the public sector net cash requirement (PSNCR) rose to 10.8 billion pounds (15.
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The four parties in Slovakia's center-right coalition government have agreed to set the 2005 budget with a deficit of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product.
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Turin's Olympic Committee needs to raise  another 65 million euros from sponsors to meet targets for the  2006 Winter Games, its chief said on Monday after reports of a  huge budget gap had sparked a national political row. Turin's  mayor ordered an audit of Olympic spending after organizers  said they had a 180 million-euro ($227 million) hole in their  books due to sponsorship shortfalls and lower sales forecasts.
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OTTAWA - Canada is on track to post a budget surplus of $5.9 billion when the federal government&#39;s current fiscal year ends in March, Finance Minister Ralph Goodale said Tuesday.