Tunisia needs $1.3 bln in foreign loans to cover 2015 budget deficit -finance minister

TUNIS  – Tunisia needs $1.3 billion in foreign financing and loans to cover a budget deficit this year, Finance Minister Slim Chaker said on Monday.

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“Our needs from foreign loans are five billion dinars. We collected 2.5 billion (Tunisian) dinars ($1.3 billion) but we still need 2.5 billion dinars,” he said.