MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish government will change its official economic projections and hike forecasts for growth in 2017, Economy Minister Luis de Guindos confirmed at a news conference on Tuesday.
De Guindos had already suggested this week that growth could be higher than the 2.3 percent previously anticipated in 2017, which will help the government design a new budget for next year that complies with EU deficit agreements.
"Quite simply, this year's growth of more than 3 percent will automatically mean that the inertia going into next year will be more positive and that we will raise our growth forecast for next year," De Guindos told a televised news conference in Brussels.
He did not give a new figure for 2017 growth or detail when the new projections would be released.