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National Council for Tripartite Cooperation discuss draft budget

Mariya Gabriel
Photo: BGNES

The National Council for Tripartite Cooperation holds an extraordinary meeting today, the government press center has reported. The draft state budget will be discussed, as well as the draft budget of the National Health Insurance Fund and the State Social Security. The meeting will be chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Mariya Gabriel and will be attended by Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov.

During the presentation of the bill for the state budget, Finance Minister Assen Vassilev stated that the budget was calculated within a 3% deficit due to the fact that Bulgaria will receive the second payment under the Recovery and Resilience Plan.



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