On November 2, 2023, in the premises of Hotel Panorama, the second session of Working Group 6 – Anti-corruption (Chapter 5 – Public procurement, Chapter 18 – Statistics, Chapter 32 – Financial control) was held on the topic \u201cRule-Based Fiscal Policy: Paving the Path for Robust Public Finances and Seamless EU Integration of North Macedonia.\u201d<\/p>\n
The working group recommends a review of the clauses set in the fiscal rules for natural disasters, decline in economic activity and costs for strategic investment projects, which allow full or partial non-use of the rules, that is, their alignment with practice in EU countries.<\/p>\n
Determining the needs for funding in public health and the pension system in the next ten years from the point of view of the needs that will be created by the process of the demographic aging of the population and the emigration of the workforce, are also part of the recommendations, according to which the basis is thinking about changes in the tax system and the creation of specific fiscal rules that will support the better functioning of the system.<\/p>\n