Yatsenyuk hopes that the Parliament will support the draft laws on the reform

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk hopes that the Parliament at the next meetings will support the package of the government draft laws aimed at reforming the country.

The government yesterday introduced in the Verkhovna Rada the draft state budget for 2015, as well as a package of 40 draft laws relating to the deregulation of the banking sector, as well as changes in tax, fiscal and customs codes. It is planned that the Rada on Thursday to approve the first reading of proposed government regulations.

" The entire package submitted to the Verkhovna Rada, the Parliament took into consideration all the necessary bills. I hope that the Parliament will not be politicheskoy, and the public attitude to the changes that the country needs, " said Yatsenyuk at the meeting of the Cabinet on Wednesday. He expressed the hope that the adoption of a package of government reforms will be the first step to that 2015 will be the " year of stabilization ".

" If we make all the necessary changes and will take all necessary bills, then in 2016 we have the prospect of economic improvement, " he said.

Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. The government predicts a decrease of the country's GDP by 5% in 2014, in November the Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk did not exclude the falling rate of 7%. A similar level of decline is predicted and the national Bank of Ukraine. The European Bank for restoration and development assumes that GDP will decline by 7%, Fitch - 5%. The authorities want to improve the situation of foreign borrowing. For 2014, Ukraine received cash assistance from international financial institutions and partner countries in the amount of 8 $ 2 billion.


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