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That is why, the Commission imposed specific deadlines for the implementation of each of the eight recommendations, major ones of which are reforms of the pension system, labour market, public administration, the judiciary, for which responsible are other ministers. Zagreb is expected to accelerate the equalisation of the retirement age between women and men, to increase it and to start a process of abolishing of early retirement schemes as well as tightening of the regime of invalidity pensions (war veterans). Also expected is better fiscal planning, accompanied by alignment with the ESA accounting methodology. This is especially important taking into account that the Croatian government was doing at least one revision of the state budget annually. Since the beginning of its term in 2012, there has been no year without a revision of the national budget.
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