Bulgaria will need to tighten spending, Labour and Social Policy Minister Nataliya Efremova said on Nova TV on Sunday.
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Bulgaria is to be placed on Wednesday under the excessive deficit procedure of the European Union, just a few months after joining the euro area, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on Friday.
Bulgaria will have to cut its budgetary expenditure, under the conditions that the European Commission announced it would trigger the excessive deficit procedure on 3 June, Labour and Social Policy Minister Nataliya Efremova said.
A fiscal slip of 3.5% of GDP automatically attracts harsh sanctions from the European Commission. The EU executive will place Bulgaria under excessive deficit procedure...