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Bulgaria has been frugal in its anti-crisis spending: TU analysis

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In 2020 Bulgaria undertook anti-crisis policies which cost 6.7% of the country’s GDP in 2019, the average European spending being 14.3%, indicates an analysis by the Institute of Social and Trade Union Studies of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria.

Romania is the only country to have spent less at 4% of its GDP. Portugal, Slovakia and Estonia have spent approximately the same amounts as Bulgaria.

Data show that Bulgaria’s economy policy, though correct and expressed in very specific measures, is by far more conservative than the measures indertaken by the other EU member countries. This is strange, because Bulgaria has no government debt problem or chronic deficit, as most other EU countries do, the analysis comments. 



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