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SDKU: Law Needed to Make Sure Public Finaces Are Truly Public
Wednesday 14 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - Public finances must be truly public and Slovakia is in need of a law that would make it obligatory for the Government to provide clear and accurate information concerning spending of state funds, Opposition SDKU-DS party vice-chairman Ivan Miklos told a press conference on Wednesday.
"We'll set precise rules for local authorities and we'll change the way things are being done. The Government is currently making decisions on massive investments without clear-cut and published analyses. We'll prescribe, by law, what sort of information is to be published and when," said Miklos while presenting the party's programme on public finances.
"This will put the Government under an obligation to release information on public finances in an intelligible fashion, so that the public knows about the deficit and the debt," added member of SDKU's anti-crisis team Eugen Jurzyca (first time candidate for Parliament).
The section of the party's programme that is devoted to public finances addresses halting increasing the country's disproportionate debt and restoring order and transparency in public finances, said Jurzyca.
Miklos also cautioned against what he called the Cabinet's reckless policies that may have the same repercussions in Slovakia as what's currently going on in Greece and Hungary. "We don't view a healthy economy as a objective per se, but as a tool for enhancing quality of life and tackling problems such as the unemployment rate and addressing the issue of pensions," said Miklos.
In addition, the current Cabinet has failed to deliver on promises that it has made, such as making sure that the Slovak people won't be impacted by the crisis, said Miklos, pointing to the EU's and OECD's figures.
"In reality, the unemployment rate for the entire EU went up by 1.3 percent between February 2009 and February 2010, while it soared by 4.1 percent in Slovakia," he said, expressing wonderment at why Prime Minister Robert Fico "is making it look like there's no crisis in Slovakia, notwithstanding the figures."
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