Latvia’s parliament will pass the country’s 2013 budget with a deficit of 1.4 percent of gross domestic product in a second and final reading today, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis said.

“All the essential agreements in the coalition have been reached” for the support in parliament, Dombrovskis said in an interview with Latvijas Radio today.

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