After years of relief on the public debt charges bill, the increase in interest expenditure is once again a cause for concern in the construction of the State Budget for next year. The rise in interest rates is conditioning the preparation of the budgetary document.
The State Budget will be submitted in less than a month, when the government will have to find a way to balance the increase in interest charges in a context of greater financial pressure.
Readers in Portugal are directly affected because the increase in public debt interest could condition investments in areas such as health, education and infrastructure. This situation follows years of declining debt charges, and represents a significant change in the budgetary choices the government will have to make.
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