Bulgaria's Jan-Aug cons budget surplus reaches 55 mln euro - table

In January-August 2011 the country ran a consolidated budget deficit of some 731.1 million levs.

Following are details on budget revenue and spending through August (in millions of levs):

Bulgaria closed last year with a budget deficit of 1.58 billion levs, equivalent to 2.5% of the country's projected gross domestic product. The government plans to bring down the budget shortfall to 1.3% of GDP this year.

(1 euro = 1.95583 Bulgarian levs)