Parliament confirms revised budget for 2020, expenditure up by nearly 30%

Ljubljana, 23 September - The National Assembly has adopted the supplementary budget for 2020, which raises expenditure by EUR 3 billion or 29% in the face of the coronavrisis while slashing revenue by almost 15%. With a deficit of 9.3% of GDP, the budget earmarks EUR 2.6 billion, 19% of all expenditure, for measures meant to mitigate the crisis.