EU concerned about Poland's deficit in 2017

The European Commission expressed its concern over the possibility of surpassing the budget deficit threshold of three percent GDP by Poland in 2017. On Tuesday, Deputy Minister of Development Mateusz Morawiecki talked with deputy head of the EC, Valdis Dombrovskis. "There were questions on how possible new [social] expenditures will affect the deficit," Morawiecki said. The minister replied that Poland will "do whatever it can to keep everything under control" and "will try to keep at around three percent." According to estimates published by the European Commission, the public finance deficit will stand at 3.4 percent in 2017.