{"id":370996,"date":"2025-12-26T23:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370996\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:53:04","slug":"portugal-with-a-budget-surplus-of-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370996\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal with a budget surplus of 2.1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Statistics Institute (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ine.pt\/xportal\/xmain?xpgid=ine_main&amp;xpid=INE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INE<\/a>): &#8220;Considering values \u200b\u200bfor the three quarters of 2025, the PA balance was positive, representing 2.1% of GDP (2.3% in the same period of 2024),&#8221; indicates the INE.<\/p>\n<p>Total revenue grew 7% year-on-year, while total expenditure increased 7.7%, in the accumulated period from January to September.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of revenue, &#8220;the increases in tax revenue, social security contributions, and other current expenditure stand out,&#8221; according to the statistics office, and on the expenditure side, &#8220;the increase in employee compensation (8.2%), social benefits (7.7%), and intermediate consumption (7.6%) is noteworthy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looking only at the third quarter, from July to September, the surplus was &#8220;\u20ac2,952 million, corresponding to 3.8% of GDP, compared to 4.9% in the same period last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the quarter, compared to the same period of the previous year, there was an increase of 7.7% in total revenue and 10.8% in total expenditure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the National Statistics Institute (INE): &#8220;Considering values \u200b\u200bfor the three quarters of 2025, the PA balance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-370996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}