The Ministry of Finance announced that it envisages an economic growth for the current year to the tune of 2% instead of the 0.8% prognosticated in the Acton on State Budget. The prognosis reads that it will grow to 2.1% in 2016, 2.5% in 2017 and 2.7% in 2018. The Ministry expects the budget deficit in 2016 will be of 2% of GDP and will go down in the course of the two following years by 0.5 percent points to reach 1.4% of GDP and 1.0% of GDP in 2017 and 2018 respectively.