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Finance Minister Kiril Ananiev
“We have hastily drew conclusions about the medium-term budget forecast. It was developed in an unprecedented situation. There are clear priorities in the budget, mainly focused on measures to overcome the consequences of the crisis. I call it an anti-pandemic budget, because it contains more than BGN 3 billion for measures to combat the coronavirus … We have decided on structural issues, the budget is balanced between COVID measures and the need for reforms in individual systems, this was told to BNR by Finance Minister Kiril Ananiev.
He explained that 1,600 million leva are provided for support to households, 576 million leva for businesses, 748 million lev for government agencies responsible for pandemic and consequence management activities, 76 million lev for national support. . co-financing of measures related to COVID-19.
“There is no populism and electoral promises… We anticipate a cushion in the budget for next year. The budgets of all ministries and departments will be financed in December with 95% of the resource, and 5% will be used for cases of force majeure in the health system. If these 5% or BGN 640 million are not spent, they will help not to exceed the projected deficit of 3.9%. Of that 3.9%, almost 2.5% are related to COVID measures … Neither people nor companies will be abandoned ”.
“At the end of the period, we will have a deficit of 28.2% of GDP, which is far from the Maastricht criterion of 60%. In 2019, the average deficit of the EU countries is 77%, and of the the euro zone, 84%, as it was before the crisis ”, explained the Minister of Finance.
According to him, the budget also includes reforms, for example, in the education and health sectors.
“For the first time we have a high priority: the formation of budgetary relations between the state and the municipalities. All types of relations increase by BGN 732 million – for the activities delegated by the state, for the matching subsidy, for the subsidy of capital ”.
He assured that the police officers have not been forgotten, because for the new year a 10% increase in their salaries is planned.
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