Translation of Communication

The national authorities must be able to work with documents produced and sent to them by the EU institutions. In this chapter you will  work with such a document. It was produced by the EU and it was then of a great concern of the Czech national institutions.
Ikona iDevice Task
In this task you will translate a part of a Communication from the Commission to the Council which is relevant for the Czech national authorities. Your task is to use any tool you have been working with and knowledge you have acquired to translate a summarizing table with data regarding the Czech Republic which has been taken form the document called Assessment of the action taken by Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia and Slovakia in response to the Council Recommendations of 2 December 2009 with a view to bringing an end to the situation of excessive government deficit.

Comparison of key macroeconomic and budgetary projections

 

 

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

 

Real GDP
(% change)

COM

6.1

2.5

-4.2

1.6

2.4

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

2.5

-4.0

1.3

2.6

3.8

n.a.

 

Output gap1
(% of potential GDP)

COM

6.0

4.8

-2.2

-2.7

-2.5

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

5.6

-2.0

-2.9

-2.6

-1.1

n.a.

 

General government balance
(% of GDP)

COM

-0.7

-2.7

-5.9

-5.7

-5.7

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

-2.1

-6.6

-5.3

-4.8

-4.2

n.a.

 

Primary balance
(% of GDP)

COM

0.5

-1.6

-4.6

-3.9

-3.6

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

-1.0

-5.3

-3.5

-2.8

-2.0

n.a.

 

Cyclically-adjusted balance1
(% of GDP)

COM

-2.9

-4.5

-5.1

-4.7

-4.8

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

-4.5

-5.9

-4.2

-3.8

-3.8

n.a.

 

Structural balance2
(% of GDP)

COM

-2.9

-4.5

-5.4

-4.9

-4.9

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

-4.5

-6.1

-4.1

-3.7

-3.5

n.a.

 

Government gross debt
(% of GDP)

COM

29.0

30.0

35.4

39.8

43.5

n.a.

n.a.

 

CP

n.a.

30.0

35.2

38.6

40.8

42.0

n.a.

 

 

Note:

1 Output gaps and cyclically-adjusted balances according to the programmes as recalculated by Commission services on the basis of the information in the programmes.

2 Cyclically-adjusted balance excluding one-off and other temporary measures.

Source: Commission services’ 2010 spring forecast (COM) and February 2010 convergence programme update (CP)

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