Germany's core and extra budgets of the overall public budget logged the highest financial surplus ever in 2015, provisional data from Destatis showed Monday.
The core and extra budgets showed a surplus of EUR 29.5 billion.
The financial balance improved by EUR 21.4 billion compared with the previous year. In 2014, the overall public budget recorded a cash surplus of EUR 8.1 billion.
Public revenue rose by 4.8 percent in 2015 on the previous year. Public revenue totaled 1,304.0 billion and public expenditure was EUR 1,274.5 billion.
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