Govt and Municipalities Reach Cost-Cutting Deal

Ljubljana, 29 January - The government and municipalities have agreed after months of negotiations and just in time for Thursday's adoption of the supplementary budget for 2015 a deal on a reduction in local government funding coupled with lower administrative costs for municipalities.

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

Ljubljana
Finance Minister Dušan Mramor and the heads of the two associations of municipalities Robert Smerdelj and Aleksander Jevšek sign cost-cutting deal.
Photo: Tamino Petelinšek/STA

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