Budget draft forwarded to parliament

The 2010 budget draft has arrived to the state parliament. MPs are scheduled to debate the draft starting next week. “The budget has arrived and it is being copied so that it can be distributed to the MPs. The next session will be held at the end of next week, in order for the MPs to have time to analyze in detail the very important law, which enables the realization of the implementation of other laws,” Parliamentary Speaker Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic said. Budget draft forwarded to parliament She said that the budget will be adopted on December 20. Djukic-Dejanovic said that the final report on the 2008 budget will be looked at by the parliamentary finance committee as well, so that MPs can initiate and plan a session to discuss that topic. Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic said that he does not know how much money has been set aside for his cabinet in the next year, but added that there will be “actions of saving, as we have been doing.” “We have been trying to save for some time now. The traveling is modest, there is practically no representation, we are paying for the coffees we drink out of our own budgets, except when a delegation of guests is visiting,” Cvetkovic said. Slavica Djukic-Dejanovic (FoNet archive)

Budget draft forwarded to parliament

She said that the budget will be adopted on December 20.

Đukić-Dejanović said that the final report on the 2008 budget will be looked at by the parliamentary finance committee as well, so that MPs can initiate and plan a session to discuss that topic.

Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković said that he does not know how much money has been set aside for his cabinet in the next year, but added that there will be “actions of saving, as we have been doing.”

“We have been trying to save for some time now. The traveling is modest, there is practically no representation, we are paying for the coffees we drink out of our own budgets, except when a delegation of guests is visiting,” Cvetković said.