After the government decided last week to cut its spending, a measure that is to affect especially the Defence Ministry, minister Karl Erjavec presented on Monday his ministry's supplementary budget.
The cabinet decided to slash its spending in order to offset the loss of budget revenues after it adopted measures to help the poorest cope with inflation.
Prime Minister Janez Jansa said then that the ministries were to propose cuts themselves, while the Defence Ministry was to allocate EUR 30m for the purpose.
Erjavec said today that the ministry would contribute an additional EUR 2m for the purchase of incubators. The ministry is to get EUR 3m by cutting management costs and EUR 29m by cuts in other areas, for example by postponing some payments until next year. Erjavec also said today that he supported the decision, and that the defence system had to take on its share of the burden if the situation was bad.
Slovenia will thus fail to fulfil its NATO obligation to allocate 2% of its GDP for defence, as the ministry's spending will amount to 1.6% of GDP. Erjavec however said that the obligation had been taken on in times of more modest economic growth.
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