Q: The Slovenian budget deficit has fallen from 15% in 2013 to 5% in 2014 and is now expected to be 2.5% for 2015. What are your expectations for 2015 and how are you planning to achieve this?
A: It is practically not possible to achieve fiscal consolidation without growth and we were very lucky to have had growth of nearly 4% in both 2014 and 2015. [In 2016] we are expecting growth to be a little lower, at about 1.7%, but still high enough to enable us to carry out further fiscal consolidation, so that at the end of this year we should have about 2.3% deficit and in 2017 1.7%.
