BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5073 HINA Zagreb, 11 September 2003

HR-BULLETIN-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 5073 HINA Zagreb, 11 September 2003 PARLIAMENT ADOPTS REVISED BUDGETZAGREB, Sept 11 (Hina) - Croatia's parliament revised the government budget with a majority vote on Thursday. Under the amendments, some 2.4 billion kuna (EUR320 million) will be reallocated. The government has said the revision will make it possible to reduce the deficit and indebtedness while not making it necessary to introduce new taxes or halt the implementation of projects. Under the revision, 400 million kuna is to be spent on recovering from this year's droughts, while 200 million is envisaged to encourage employment. Several hundred million will go for severance and back pays in the interior and defence ministries and the Armed Forces, for pensions in the republics of the former Yugoslavia, and for reforms in the military and judiciary. About 75 million is envisaged for coming parliamentary elections, several million for ethnic minorities' elections, Croa