Hausner says budget deficit better than expected and unemployment down

This was achieved thanks to increasing the amount of stock offered to investors in the floatation of the largest domestic retail bank PKO BP, which might result in zł.2 billion higher revenues than those anticipated for this year. At the same time in October fiscal revenues already exceeded the total amount scheduled for 2004. Hausner added that last month the rate of unemployment dropped by 0.2% to reach 18.7%. "October was the month confirming the positive tendency, but I still remember that over 2.9 million people do not have jobs," said the deputy PM. (Parkiet, p. 8) M.M.