The approval of the state budget lacked responsibility and Slovakia is further indebted.

Another €5 billion next year, with the country's debt already above 60% of GDP. With such a number, we would not have been accepted into the euro area in 2009 and we would have been a similarly troubled member as Greece at the time. The Christian Democratic Movement draws attention to this. The party said the government "does not take into account current developments, i.e. a freeze in GDP growth in the third quarter, a repeated decline in industrial output in the autumn months, rising energy prices and the highest monthly inflation in 17 years." When discussing the budget, the government did not discuss this, it did not talk about the risks that will result from this in the impact on revenues – the decrease in tax revenues – and also on the expenditure of the state budget, such as to compensate for energy poverty," says PETER Belinsky, chairman of the KDH Consteg. Peter Belinsky, an economic expert group of the movement. The government relies on nearly a quarter of the state budget revenue for EU funds and the Recovery Plan. According to the Christian Democrats, both sources are at risk. In the first case, due to the persistent inability to draw on EU funds, in the second case due to the inability to implement the announced reforms." More than €4 billion could go to the pandemic this year. Less than EUR 1 billion is planned next year, and we do not know how the pandemic and its consequences will develop. It is quite possible that the government will approve a budget overhaul next year with an unfortunate impact on the public finances - just as it did this year," KDH warns.  In May 2021, the government approved higher spending by €3.7 billion, which directly increases the deficit to the same level." With expanding spending in the 2022 budget, the government is not linking the necessary reforms. It is therefore highly likely that a balanced budget under her reign will remain a dream. It does not adapt the debt brake to current ratios. The debt of public finances continues," concludes Belinsky's opinion of economists at KDH.

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