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The 2025 budget has been formulated on the basis of overestimates of expenditure for 2024. The increase in the deficit could therefore be higher this year than shown when the budget documents were adopted. The deficit excluding intervention measures is thus projected to increase by as much as EUR 1.6 billion this year compared to […]

The state budget deficit in 2024 amounted to EUR 808 million; excluding the direct impact of intervention measures, the deficit was EUR 275 million. The much lower overall deficit in 2024 compared to the previous year was mainly due to the reduced impact of intervention measures. It was approximately EUR 1 billion lower than in […]

According to preliminary data, the state budget deficit for the first eleven months of the year amounted to EUR 396 million, less than a third of the deficit recorded in the same period last year. According to the latest available estimate by the Ministry of Finance, the end-of-year deficit is expected to amount to EUR […]

On 14 November 2024, the Fiscal Council hosted a delegation of the Internation Monetary Fund (IMF) within its consultative meeting in Slovenia. The purpose of the visit was familiarisation with the near- and medium-term fiscal policy and reforms and adherence to the new EU fiscal rules and fiscal risks.

According to preliminary data, the state budget deficit for the first ten months of the year amounted to EUR 553 million, which was around half of the deficit in the same period last year. According to the latest available estimate by the Ministry of Finance, the end-of-year deficit is expected to amount to EUR 1,407 […]

The Fiscal Council publishes Assessment of budgetary documents for 2025 and 2026 and opinion on the Medium-Term Fiscal and Structural Plan 2025–2028