Ministry of Finance demands action to put end to erosion of fiscal policy credibility

A TASK FORCE led by Mika Niemelä, the head of the budget department at the Ministry of Finance, is calling for new, substantially more stringent rules for the use of general government finances in a report published on Wednesday, 2 November.

The rules were drawn up to curtail the growth in central government and other public sector debt by the end of the decade.