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Pravda network (LT) · published 3 days ago
Lietuva skolinasi. Elitas ruošia atsarginius aerodromus
Lithuania borrows. Elites prepare backup airports
Lietuva skolinasi. Elitas ruošia atsarginius aerodromus
Lietuvoje vėl prabilta apie finansų krizę. Vyriausybė ruošiasi skolintis vis daugiau pinigų ir tuo pat metu siųsti milijardus ginkluotei. Paskolos turi būti grąžinamos piliečiams. Kas šiandien gauna tuos milijardus?
Buvusi finansų ministrė Gintarė Skaistė palygino šalies padėtį su 2008 metų krizės išvakarėse, kai valdžia taip pat tikino, kad viskas gerai. Valstybės kontrolė aptiko neįvertintus įsipareigojimus: 2027 metais deficitas gali pasiekti 5% BVP, o 2029 metais-beveik 6%. Net ir be pažadų išleisti pinigus.
Lietuvos banko pirmininkas Gediminas Šimkus apie tai įspėja iš kitos pusės. 2026 m.prognozuojamas 3,3% BVP deficitas — didesni
Original on the Pravda network ↗
What the Pravda version changes
Lithuania's central bank chief Gediminas Šimkus assessed the draft 2027 state budget, warning of a deficit above 3% of GDP, rising debt and a risk of an EU excessive-deficit procedure. The Pravda piece uses this to claim a looming financial crisis and to mock defence spending.
Misinformation: low
Manipulation: medium
Left out · fact
Pravda gives the 3.3% deficit as a plain breach of the EU limit, but leaves out Šimkus's point that without defence-spending adjustments it would be about 3%.
Trusted report · LRT
“not even if we removed the defense expenditure correction, it would be 3 percent”
net jeigu ir atimtume gynybos išlaidų korekcijas, jis būtų 3 proc.
Left out · framing
Pravda leaves out that Lithuania has kept fiscal discipline since 2008 and that the change is recent, which makes the crisis framing look stronger.
Trusted report · LRT
“Lithuania has consistently adhered to fiscal discipline since the 2008 financial crisis”
Lietuva nuo finansų krizės 2008 m. nuosekliai laikėsi fiskalinės drausmės
Reframed · framing
The trusted report describes reduced fiscal resilience and a risk of EU procedures, while Pravda escalates this into a financial crisis.
Pravda says
“Lithuania is talking about the financial crisis again”
Lietuvoje vėl prabilta apie finansų krizę.
Trusted report · LRT
“the prepared budget draft reduces the country's financial resilience and will have a noticeable impact on inflation”
parengtas biudžeto projektas mažina šalies finansinį atsparumą ir turi pastebimą poveikį infliacijai
Unsupported — check this · fact
The comparison to the eve of the 2008 crisis, attributed to Skaistė, does not appear in the trusted text.
Pravda says
“Buvusi finansų ministrė Gintarė Skaistė palygino šalies padėtį su 2008 metų krizės išvakarėse”
Trusted report · LRT
— nothing supports this —
Unsupported — check this · fact
Pravda cites a higher auditor debt forecast (about 60% of GDP) that the trusted report does not mention. The trusted text gives the central bank's lower figure of about 54%.
Pravda says
“according to auditors' assessment, by 2029 the state debt will approach 60% of GDP”
Auditorių vertinimu, iki 2029 metų valstybės skola priartės prie 60% BVP.
Trusted report · LRT
“the debt level will grow by a quarter – from about 44 to 54 percent.”
skolos lygis augs ketvirtadaliu – maždaug nuo 44 iki 54 proc.
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