MADRID (AP) — Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has conceded that the government just failed to reduce its budget deficit in 2012 to the level it promised European authorities.
He says the deficit fell to 6.7 percent of the country’s annual gross domestic product from 9 percent in 2011.
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