Statistics Portugal presents the provisional results on the main aggregates of General Government (GG) for 2017 sent to Eurostat in accordance with the ESA 2010 data transmission programme.
According to these results, the GG sector presented a net borrowing balance of 5 736 million euro in 2017, corresponding to 3.0% of GDP. These results include the effect of the recapitalisation process of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, of 3 944 million euro, with an impact corresponding to 2.0% of GDP.