The Government lowers its growth forecast while approving the highest spending ceiling in history

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The first step in drawing up the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2023 has produced two very important pieces of evidence: that the Spanish economy will grow

and, at the same time, that the non-financial spending grows significantly

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The rebound, despite this economic slowdown, will be just over 2,000 million, with which the so-called spending ceiling will be 198,221 million.

The Ministry of Finance itself remarks that this figure "

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As far as growth is concerned, the macro table on which the Budgets will be based maintains the estimated rebound for this year at 4.3%, a figure that could seem somewhat optimistic in view of the revisions made by the main organizations and study services.

But for next year, it already seemed totally out of date, and the fact that the first vice president, Nadia Calviño, has reduced it significantly shows it: it

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