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Budget Deficit Rose to €2.078 billion to End of May
Tuesday 01 June 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, June 1 (TASR) - The budget deficit increased to €2.078 billion to the end of May after standing at €1.480 billion at the end of April, the Finance Ministry reported on Monday.
In May 2009, the deficit reached €832 million. The deficit for the whole of 2010 is planned to reach €3.746 billion.
According to the ministry, budget revenues to May reached €3.958 billion or 31.6 percent of the projected €12.531 billion for 2010 as a whole. State expenditures were €6.036 billion, or 37.1 percent of the projected amount for the whole year - 16.277 billion.
The global crisis had a significant impact on the Slovak economy last year, which shrank by 4.7 percent, causing the public-finance deficit to rise from the projected 2.1 to 6.8 percent of GDP.
Because of this, the Government pledged to introduce a substantial consolidation of public finances as of 2010. According to the public administration budget for 2010-12 passed by Parliament in November 2009, the deficit should be reduced to 5.5 percent of GDP this year, to 4.2 percent in 2011, and below the 3-percent threshold set by European budget in 2012.
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