The fiscal criterion on public debt is currently met. Slovakia had not exceeded the reference value (60% of GDP) in the previous years either. After a gradual increase in public debt in the period of 1999-2001, in 2002 the government moved to reduce it, in particular by using privatisation revenues.
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