Yushchenko described the signing of the budget of Ukraine a big mistake.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on Sunday in an interview with ICTV television channel said that the signing of the budget of Ukraine for 2009 was "a big mistake." As the UNIAN, Yushchenko expressed the view that the paper took the Verkhovna Rada on the basis of political considerations, believing that it is better to start the new year with a poorly accentuated economic instrument, than without him. "
As reported by Interfax, Ukrainian President also stressed that the difficult economic situation in the country, "responds one institution - the government - and personally, Prime Minister, once again placing the responsibility for the crisis in the Yulia Tymoshenko.
According to Yushchenko, the annual inflation rate in Ukraine exceeds the 9.5 percent envisaged in the budget. "This inflation will fail, it will be much more" - said the Ukrainian president, citing the opinion of experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In doing so, Yushchenko said that he had "no goal to find a manual control and adjust your budget, in fact, shifted this responsibility to the Prime Minister.
Recall that the budget law for 2009, Viktor Yushchenko signed in late 2008, after December 26, the budget was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. According to the budget, revenues in 2009 amount to 238 billion hryvnia (31.2 billion dollars), while the cost - 266 billion hryvnia (34.9 billion dollars).
Yushchenko, criticized the budget deficit prior to its enactment, after the signing of the law noted that the deficit will be recorded in January 2009.
As the RIA Novosti, a significant contribution to the worsening financial and economic situation in Ukraine has made a drop in world financial markets, which are a source of income for the country. In this regard, there were problems in the export industries. According to the agency by the end of March 2009 the number of unemployed in Ukraine will increase from 900 thousand to 3,5 million.