Aimed at achieving stability, co-ordination and governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the treaty provides that the national budgets must be balanced or in surplus and that the governments' structural deficits should not exceed 0.5% of GDP.
Sporazumom, koji je usmeren na ostvarivanje stabilnosti, koordinacije i upravljanja u Ekonomskoj i monetarnoj uniji (EMU), predviđeno je da nacionalni budžeti budu balansirani ili u suficitu, te da strukturni deficiti vlada ne prelaze 0,5 odsto BDP-a.