The Finance Ministry has said inflated income expectations in the 2002 state budget plan, and unforeseen expenditures such as an announced pension rise, could increase the planned end-year deficit by Sk26 billion, or from 3.5 per cent of GDP to 5.5 per cent. The Council of Economic Ministers, a senior cabinet body, will discuss the ministry warning at its regular meeting today.
Compiled by Tom Nicholson from press reports.
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