Greece’s state budget recorded a $9.35 billion primary surplus in the first nine months of 2025, surpassing targets as tax revenue outperformed expectations and spending remained below forecast, Finance Ministry data show

Ordinary budget revenue totaled 40.827 billion euros, compared to 37.523 billion euros in the corresponding eight-month period of last year

The state budget primary balance on a modified cash basis posted a surplus of 4.519 billion euros, against the primary surplus target of 2.235 billion euros

The primary budget surplus figure of 4.5 billion euros marks a significant improvement over the figure of 77 million euros posted during the corresponding period of 2024

A sharp drop in domestic demand has left nearly 40% to 50% of this year's harvest unsold, creating a surplus that is placing intense pressure on producers.

Greece is showing strong fiscal momentum, with new data from ELSTAT revealing a significantly higher-than-expected primary surplus for 2024.

Greece recorded a primary cash surplus of €4.1 billion for the period January to March 2025, a significant increase from the €2.4 billion surplus registered during the same period last year, according to the Bank of Greece (BoG). The data released today by the Bank of Greece revealed that the central government’s overall cash balance […]

Greece’s state budget primary surplus, based on final data, reached 758 million euros in January 2025, according to figures released on Tuesday by the finance ministry. The surplus is higher than the envisioned goal of 200 million euros that is included in the introductory report for the 2025 state budget for the specific period. The […]

The Greek budget recorded a primary surplus of €2 billion, up from the €1.4-billion target for January. According to provisional data for the execution of the state budget on a revised cash basis, the Greek government budget balance reported a €780-million-euro surplus against the €200-million target for January 2025 included in the preliminary report. The primary […]

In previous budget execution reports, in October, a net amount of €3.241bln was collected from the new Concession Agreement for Attiki Odos

The government on Friday announced a primary budget surplus of 12.011 billion euros in the Jan-Nov period of the year, compared to a target 9.912 billion euros and a primary surplus of 5.826 billion euros for the same period in 2023. A portion of the surplus is 206 million euros emanating from a windfalls tax […]

A significant part of this surplus is attributed to the receipt of €3.2 billion in October from the new concession agreement for the Attiki Odos

Specifically, from Jan. to Aug. 2024, the central government recorded a cash surplus of 1.368 billion euros, compared to a deficit of 964 million euros in the same period of 2023.

The performance was almost double the target of 3.316 billion euros

Greek state budget deficit for January-July 2024 amounted to €121 million, significantly lower than the target of €3.745 billion

The central government posted a primary balance surplus of 2.9 billion euros in January-June 2024 period, up from 1.519 billion euros in H1 2023, the Bank of Greece (BoG) announced on Wednesday. Specifically, Greece’s central bank said the central government cash balance posted a deficit of 1.558 billion euros in the January-June 2024 period, compared […]

Value Added Tax (VAT) revenues reached 5.876 billion euros, down by 16 million euros compared to the target.

Greek debt saw a slight dip to 356.7 billion euros by the end of 2023, down from 356.8 billion euros a year prior

This is up from a target of 2.133 billion euros over the same period last yeat, and compared to a primary surplus of 3.079 billion in the corresponding quarter last year

For the January-February 2024 period, state budget net revenues totaled 12.648 billion euros