Minister of Finance Trajko Slaveski of Macedonia
Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski said that this increase is a result of the inadequate planning of the funds and the inadequate distribution of revenues and expenditures in the Budget.
The economy has certainly been mismanaged, but I don't think Trajko Slaveski is entirely to blame in this case.
Slaveski said this rise was partially due to a rise in petroleum prices which raised the tax revenue as well.
Slaveski said higher spending will not additionally increase inflation as “the spending comes from real money income” in the budget.
Skopje _ Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski is due to present the country`s 2009 Draft Budget to Parliament Speaker Trajko Veljanovski on Thursday, the local Makfax news agency reported.
49 billion, Slaveski said earlier this week.
Judging from the tone of your opening remarks though, it would seem that at least as far as you're concerned Macedonia passed the crossroads of ten years ago only to hit a dead end!The economy has certainly been mismanaged, but I don't think Trajko Slaveski is entirely to blame in this case.
Now by this I am in no way making a judgment on the actual competence of Popovski and Gruevski as Ministers of Finance or ignoring the fact that they too had political masters, but it is fair to say that they both had a much freer hand to manage (or indeed mismanage the economy) than what Slaveski has today.
Slaveski is not in a strong position as Minister in the sense that he has Zoran Stavreski above him (who is stronger politically and considers himself as a higher authority in economics than Slaveski) and of course you have Prime Minister Gruevski of whom many in his Government will tell you is the most brilliant economist in Europe.
Commenting on the future of 220 employees in Makedonska Banka, Slaveski said cessation of work of enterprises was a natural process.
Macedonian Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski said on Wednesday (January 30th) at a conference in Skopje that the country will receive 282m euros in foreign investments in 2008 and foreign investments will increase even further to 329m euros in 2009.
Trajko Slaveski was elected Macedonia's Minister of Finance in August 2006.
comFinance Minister Trajko Slaveski is due to present the country`s 2009 draft budget to parliament speaker Trajko Veljanovski on November 13, the local Makfax news agency reported.
49 billion euro, Slaveski said earlier this week.
Slaveski has said that this would help address the impact on Macedonia of the world economic crisis.
Handing over the budget, which was drafted in the past 7-8 months, Minister of Finance Slaveski said it was submitted within the determined deadline - Nov 15.
Finance Minister Trajko Slaveski said the government does not expect the proposed support measures to cause serious excess of budget expenditure.