An independent advisory body tasked with assessing Estonian fiscal policy says it does not approve of the Ministry of Finance's summer economic forecast, issued in late August, on the grounds that it uses outdated premises on the growth of government spending, partly relating to the change in administration in July.
Decisions made by the Reform Party in late June which involved scrapping three major infrastructure projects which would have utilized European Union recovery funds are back on the table now Reform is in office with Isamaa and the Social Democrats (SDE).
Opposition politicians are generally against any sweeping budget cuts, but at the same time recommend looking for savings in the wake of the rise in state spending prompted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the energy price inflation which started last fall.