Budget, Employment, Estonia, Financial Services, Legislation

The government approved on Monday of the 2016 state budget, according to which almost 750 jobs should disappear from the public sector by the end of the next year.

"We decided to follow what different administrative spheres have done in the past. The institutions, which have themselves carried out reforms, reformed the structure, the contribution expected from them is not as big as of those where substantial reforms have not been made in the past," the prime minister explained at a press conference.

Rõivas stressed that each minister has a big role in, in particular, finding ways to consolidate support services and reduce bureaucracy.

"We have a clear goal, that no public service should suffer because of the approximately one percent downsizing. Our interest is that the public service would be in good shape. That there were no replacement activities, self-growing apparatus," explained the head of government.

Rõivas worded the aim so that all the ministers should have a strong motivator to look into the institutions in their governance sphere. "Giving a motivator is right, the interest has to be constant and that throughout the country," he added.