The government is preparing a supplementary budget that will include further subsidies to households and businesses without changing its primary deficit target of 2% of GDP, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Thursday. According to sources inside the Treasury, the extra funding will be possible without revising the fiscal targets because Greece’s GDP will be €7 billion higher than initially estimated.

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