BRATISLAVA, August 12, (WEBNOVINY) — No more than five most important short-term measures which ministers want to carry out in their departments by the end of the year and no more than five most important medium-term measures to be carried out by the end of 2011 are the tasks that Prime Minister Iveta Radicova assigned for members of her Cabinet to be defined by August 19. In a letter addressed to the ministers, Radicova asked for cooperation in making the priorities of the government program statement more concrete. “The government undertook to adopt structural changes that will bring development impulses and at the same time prepare for consolidation of public finances,” Radicova said.
The prime minister specified that the measures the ministers are expected to carry out have to improve the quality of citizens’ lives in six areas: increasing employment, improving the business environment and active civil society, fighting against corruption, improving the enforceability of the law, improving the health condition of the population, and improving health of public funds. The main goal of these measures has to be improving the rules, motivation, and environment which affect positive development in the aforementioned six areas. Radicova went on to say that financial measures can be part of the measures, but only if they respect the commitment of the government to reduce the general government’s deficit under three percent of GDP by 2013 and if ministers are able to secure their financing within their budgetary chapters.
The prime minister is expected to leave for a vacation on Saturday, stated the Cabinet Office’s press department.
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