Monday, 4 April 2011, Brussels
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA, MR. TRAJKO VELJANOSKI AT THE CONFERENCE OF THE SPEAKERS OF THE PARLIAMENTS OF THE EU
If we are discussing on serious and dedicated approach, I would undoubtedly share the manner on which the Republic of Macedonia has resisted the stoke of the world economic crisis. The Government of the Republic of Macedonia has managed to reduce the consequences, using four packages of anti-crisis measures, which resulted in fall of the economy of only 0.6 to 0.8%, which provided us with the third best result in Europe. In the same time we have had a budgetary deficit lower than the deficit of the European states. The IMF reports concluded that the Republic of Macedonia handled with the crisis best on a best manner of all countries of South Eastern Europe, which is confirmed with the fact that even in the in the peak of the economic crisis the salaries were not decreased, nor the employees were fired.