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New unit to speed absorption of EU funds in Bulgaria

Thu, Sep 02 2010 11:06 CET

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New unit to speed absorption of EU funds in Bulgaria

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Bulgaria will set up a new government unit to accelerate the absorption of EU financing, said Tomislav Donchev, the country’s minister in charge of EU funds absorption.

Between 160 and 180 people will be employed as "EU funds management associates" and will be paid up to 2500 leva a month out of the technical assistance budget of the respective programme.

The largest number of such jobs, at least 25, will be created under operational programme Environment, according to Donchev.

Administrative capacity shortage is one of the main hurdles for EU financing absorption in Bulgaria, according to the European Commission.

At the moment, Bulgaria pays an average of 10 million leva under operational programmes each week and paid more than 34 million leva in the last week of August, according to Donchev.

But on day 1340 of its EU accession, which took place on January 1 2007, Bulgaria has contracted just 34.5 per cent out of the total eight billion euro that it is entitled to and only 1217 days remain to the end of 2013, which marks the end of the current EU budget, Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) MP Dimcho Mihalevski said. He estimated that the government has to pay out 113 million euro a month to absorb the entire allocation.

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Anonymous peter Mon, Sep 06 2010 01:44 CET
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@ Susie

Maybe because most people know where the money will go ;-) it never reaches the place it should. What happened with all the money to build roads? all you see are potholes.

Anonymous susie Fri, Sep 03 2010 12:31 CET
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WHY ARE THERE NO COMMENTS ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT ARTICLE ?

Anonymous susie Fri, Sep 03 2010 12:28 CET
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I truly hope that these posts will be advertised nationally in BG. There are so many young graduates in both English Language and Agriculture;
As an ex pst resident I have met so many young Bulgarians - both male and female that have a passion to implement the EU funding properly NO JOBS FOR THE BOYS / FAMILY
The Government need to tap into their home grown youth talent who are committed to fair distribution of funding and who can relate to local communities to advise on grant applications. Wake up people use your youth. [...]

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