MADRID: Spain’s economic growth will be stronger than predicted in 2017 but the country’s public deficit will overshoot what Madrid promised to the European Union, the central bank said Monday.

In a statement, the bank said Spain’s economy would grow 2.8 percent this year, faster than the 2.5 percent it had previously anticipated.

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