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Spain will continue to miss its fiscal targets

Political uncertainty and slowing growth imply that Spain’s budget deficit targets are too optimistic. As such, Spain looks set to breach the EU’s 3% deficit limit for at least two more years. And, in contrast to European Commission expectations, the public debt burden is unlikely to have peaked.

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