Archive of articles - June 2002, page 8

TASR head up for dismissal

US ambassador refused Mečiar meeting

NBS intervenes again to support crown

Schuster to weigh Macejko dismissal request

Nationalist opponents bury hatchet for elections

Today is tax freedom day

Tesco building more stores

Dzurinda fires Transport Minister Macejko

Last parliament begins Tuesday

Fico rejects government with Dzurinda, Mikloš

Dzurinda to sue Nový Čas tabloid

Reader feedback: Failing the smell test

Reader feedback: Inviting Csáky 'audacity'

Gabura running for KDH seat

2003 budget introduced, then doubted

Around Slovakia

MP gets F1 test driving jobGroup threatens bomb attacks in SlovakiaMore drunk police driversA bad place to sleepYoung for a babkaSPP man catches fire during pipe system checksOfficer soon out of job after Roma attackVandalised graves to be identified on InternetPolice behind armed theft?Papradno skins charged

Mikloš, NBS circle wagons on new deficit target

DESPITE having increased the projected 2002 fiscal deficit by about Sk10 billion, or from 3.5 to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product, Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Ivan Mikloš has said fears of a runaway budget deficit and fiscal crisis have been exaggerated.Following a Finance Ministry warning in April that Slovakia's fiscal deficit could grow Sk26 billion beyond the previous estimate of Sk36.8 billion, Mikloš announced on June 10 that the possible shortfall had been overstated, and that updated budget figures showed fiscal overruns of only Sk8 to Sk10 billion past the official target.He added that the government had won the support of the International Monetary Fund for the revision, which he said would not increase pressure for currency devaluation or boost the country's troubling trade deficit, as Slovak media had recently claimed.

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NBS halts crown fall