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08/27/2019
Fiscal Council meets the Minister of Health
Fiscal Council members today met the Minister of Health Mr Aleš Šabeder and his team at the Ministry’s initiative. The discussion focused on challenges of long-term fiscal sustainability in light of rising public health-related expenditure.
07/30/2019
07/08/2019
Public Finance and Macroeconomic Developments, July 2019
The general government was in balance in the first quarter of 2019 whereas in the same period last year it recorded a surplus of 0.4% of GDP. This change reflects, in particular a further acceleration of expenditure growth, which is mostly of a structural nature and linked to higher growth in expenditure on compensation of […]
06/12/2019
Assessment by the Fiscal Council: Compliance of the general government budgets with the fiscal rules in 2018
In accordance with the provisions of the Fiscal Rule Act the Fiscal Council made an assessment of the executed general government budgets’ compliance with the fiscal rules in 2018. The Fiscal Council assesses that the 2018 fiscal policy was neutral since the structural balance did not change, although it should have been restrictive in view of the economy’s cyclical position. The medium-term fiscal objective under the EU rules was achieved in 2018, but only if the allowed deviation is taken into account. The domestic rule referring to general government expenditure was not complied with because the expenditure exceeded the benchmark of the adopted medium-term framework. The decrease in the share of general government debt in GDP was appropriate in 2018.
05/31/2019
Report on the Fiscal Council’s operations in 2018
Pursuant to the Fiscal Rule Act, the Fiscal Council is required to submit a report on its operations in the past year to the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia by the end of May each year. The first part of the report describes the structure and various levels of operations of the Fiscal Council in the last year: the Fiscal Council drew up all budgetary document assessments envisaged by the legislation, and at the same time responded to economic and political events that marked the past year. The second part of the report presents selected topics that the Fiscal Council examined in more detail and that constituted the basis for the opinions and assessments provided.
04/18/2019
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