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Budget deficit widens to 6% after first week of negotiations

From Postimees · () Estonian

Translated from Estonian and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Estonia’s first round of negotiations over the 2027 state budget has ended.
  • The talks focused on ministers’ spending requests rather than final decisions or the resolution of disagreements.
  • Finance Ministry officials found that the requested spending would produce a deficit of 6%, Social Minister Karmen Joller said.

The first week of Estonia’s 2027 budget negotiations pushed the projected deficit to 6 percent, based on spending requests submitted by ministers.

The talks have not yet reached the stage of making decisions or resolving disagreements. Instead, ministers outlined how much money they wanted and what they hoped to do.

Social Minister Karmen Joller of the Reform Party told Kuku Radio on Friday that Finance Ministry officials entered the requests into an Excel table and found that the next year’s budget would show a 6 percent deficit. The details of the proposals are not yet known.

When Finance Ministry officials entered all the requests from the ministers into an Excel table, it became clear that next year’s state budget would have a deficit of six percent.

· Karmen JollerThe Estonian social minister described the result of compiling ministers’ initial spending requests.
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Originally published by Postimees in Estonian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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