Meglena Ploughchieva. Photo: Julia Lazarova
The global financial crisis would not affect in any way or form the European Union structural funding allocated to the country, as those funds are guaranteed by the EU budget and were not affected by the credit squeeze and the financial crisis currently gripping the industrialised West, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU funds use, Meglena Plougchieva, said on November 18.
Not only would access to those funds not be altered, but there will be no reduction of their value either, Plougchieva told a news conference in Veliko Turnovo. The Deputy PM was in the old Bulgarian capital to deliver a lecture on the challenges Bulgaria faced in utilising European funds at the Veliko Turnovo University, which is celebrating its 45-year anniversary.
According to Plougchieva, the main challenge was not securing the money, but what to do with it once it receives them – how to utilise them in an appropriate manner, in the quickest and most coherent way possible.
Moreover, one of the fundamental goals of the committees responsible for management and supervision of those funds was to enforce and ensure that they are spent in a proper way and that it was not misappropriated.
Plougchieva also said that the Government was preparing a round table with the participation of the employers, labour unions and foreign investors to find the most efficient ways to offset the negative effects of the global economic crisis on Bulgaria.
Comments by n west - 10:13 19 Nov 2008 |
 | Bulgaria should not..receive any funding from the EU. A corrupt country run by organised crime. stealing millions from British People. Corrupt lawyers like Ralitsa Georgieva Galeva 23 Bugarievo Str fl 4 app 65 of Plovidiv involved in Mafia, fake contracts and stealing millions, fake companies like AZ Properties, STC, etc run by thugs..in suits who murder people who ask too many questions. The British Fraud squad has investigations into the serious organised crime and fraud. Police paid by the gangs, dishonest evil people that steal from the old, children and hard working western people. A country with no law.... I will follow this to the top of the EU and British Parliment. Smilen Todorov Botev of 21 Stoyan Sredev Str Saedinenie, Plovdiv a thug who runs AZ Properties at 26 Filip Makedonski Str Plovidiv , which is a run down flat from the outside that con's hundreds of British into thinking they have gone at it is a scam where in real life inside are desks with many fake companies, identity fraud, bank details, forged signatures, millions of euros stolen from investors, forged signatures of Structual engineers, Ralitsa's business cards, STC and the accountant of this organised crime network Stefi Kostadinova and evil man. They say they have never meet Ralitsa even though her cards are on the desk and her name in the Diary full of names of Europeans who's money they have stolen.... No BULGARIA MUST STAND UP TO THESE PEOPLE BEFORE IT HAS ANY.. RESPECT FROM THE REAL WESTERN WORLD. TRY PUTTING SOMEONE IN PRISON FOR A LONG TIME TO SET AN EXAMPLE TO YOUR THUGS AND LAWYERS WHO BELIEVE THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW,... |  |
