Fekter: Debt reduction and tax reform are our absolute priorities

People ♦ Published: July 25, 2013; 17:25 ♦ (Vindobona)

"We are on the right track"

Fekter: Debt reduction and tax reform are our absolute priorities / Picture: © ÖVP Bundespartei / Jacob Glaser

"With the Stability Act 2012, the 2013 budget and the stimulus package we have just adopted, we have paved the way towards achieving a zero deficit by 2016, and are thus also successively reducing our debt-to-GDP ratio”, Austrian Finance Minister Maria Fekter stated at the presentation on the IHS economic forecast. “We will continue to resolutely pursue the structural reforms…