Budget Deficit for This Year EUR 83m Lower than Expected

Koper, 13 April - The government has confirmed the framework supplementary budget bill for 2005, which sets the budget deficit at SIT 92.7bn (EUR 386.7m), SIT 20bn (EUR 83.4m) less than expected in the original 2005 budget act. The deficit will thus stand at 1.4% of GDP.