MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Thursday he was open to asking the European Commission for some flexibility on the country's public deficit target, straying from his usual insistence in meeting the EU-agreed goals.
"Spain has to keep following the roadmap for (economic)stability agreed with the European Union, but also it could use the flexibility that European law allows," he told a news conference.
The commission said last week Spain risked missing the 2016 the deficit target of 2.8 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), forecasting a budget shortfall of 3.6 percent.