National security and defence will be basic budget of Ukraine for 2016, said Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

"The budget is, of course, national security and defense. On them, as has been stated, we will allocate 100 billion UAH (4, 2 billion). After all, focusing on recent reports, the war is far from over. In addition, we are required to keep budgetary shortage at level 3, 7%, as agreed with the IMF ", - quotes the expression of the premiere news Agency. He showed that the opportunity of tax reform will need to decrease the expenditures of the state budget of over 60 billion hryvnia (2, 5 billion). Yatsenyuk also told, which is expected to reduce costs." in the 1st turn, the optimization of logistics costs. A significant portion of expenditures after decentralization has moved to the level of local budgets. In addition we save on the government. In the past year have reduced it by more than 20 % and the fleet - almost doubled. Fly scheduled flights, economy class. Next will be to optimize all costs, and among them non-core and inefficient, " He said. To the question about whether the budget for 2016 provides increase of social standards, Yatsenyuk replied: "I Think we need to lay at the level of the current year. Everything will be depending on where we find the resource ". Before the head of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko said on the need for making "difficult decisions" such as reducing budget expenditures 2016 at least 60 billion UAH, can be up to 200 billion hryvnia (8, $ 7 billion), i.e. by 25%. She also made a proposal to reduce budget expenditures at the expense of health and education.

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