Finance minister will put forward additional cost-cutting package

In related news, the finance minister has said if he stays on in his post he will come forward with a new savings measures package early next year. He is currently weighing the decision to resign, after the law on the state budget for 2010 was substantially changed by the country’s leftist parties, the Social Democrats and the Communists, this week. They deepened the proposed deficit for next year by an additional 12 billion crowns. Mr Janota is expected to reach a decision over whether to step down, on Monday.