Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras says his country now has a primary budget surplus of €1.5 billion (£1.2 billion), the first recorded by the country in more than a decade.
"The primary budget surplus is much higher than we had initially estimated ... I am telling you now that it exceeds €1.5bn, three times as big as we initially calculated," Samaras said in an interview published in Sunday's edition of Greek newspaper To Vima. The figure does not take into account debt repayments to international creditors, which could top €11bn and are due in May.
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