May 17, 2015
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Government proposes to increase salaries and pensions this year; however the Fiscal Council opposes the idea.
The government stated that with the actual economic growth it is about time to increase salaries and pensions this year (after a 10-percent cut in November 2014 due to fiscal consolidation measures). This increase would have an impact on improvement of the citizen’s living standards. However, the Fiscal Council immediately opposed this idea. In its regular report, the Council said in relation to the developments in March 2015 that the reduction in pensions and public sector salaries is a key measure of the country’s fiscal consolidation that brought about the biggest savings in the 2015 budget.
English: http://inserbia.info/today/2015/04/vucics-empty-promises-fiscal-council-no-room …
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