off-budget
Americanadjective
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Earlier this year, government and opposition parties linked up in Parliament to create off-budget funds worth more than a trillion dollars to be spent on the military and on infrastructure over the next decade, the biggest military ramp-up in Europe in decades.
Since then, further crises have piled up, forcing it to resort ever more to off-budget funds, even as debt has become more expensive with interest rates rising.
From Reuters
The increase would be 8% when including an additional $1.3 billion in new proposed spending through off-budget accounts.
From Washington Times
The EPF, created in 2021, is an off-budget instrument aimed at enhancing the EU's ability to prevent conflicts, build peace and strengthen international security.
From Reuters
"The good news is that there are now signs of stabilisation, as policy support doled out towards the end of 2022 is showing up in the relative resilience of infrastructure investment and credit growth. The better news is that we see continued policy accommodation through off-budget fiscal channels in 2023."
From Reuters
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