Thecentral government's share ofthebudget deficit looks like being 2.7 points less in the first ten months of this year than in 2009, and the tax take is up by 10%.
And in Greece, thegovernmentof former central banker Lucas Papademos has passed its first budget promising to reduce the deficit without further austerity measures.
Thebudget for the first three months was very tight: counting in only the items we really have financed, we had a central-government budget deficit of about 1.5% of GDP.