BUL/ BULGARIA COULD SEE UP TO 400 MILLION EURO WORTH OF EU MONEY FROZEN

www.balkans.com Bulgaria could see up to 400 million euro worth of EU money in next programming period frozen unless the government in Sofia sacked the current management of the country’s Employment Agency, Bulgarian media reports said, qouted by Sofia Globe.In a sharply-worded letter, the head of the European Commission’s directorate-general for employment, social affairs and inclusion Koos Richelle, said that the agency’s activities gave rise to doubts about its impartiality. Furthermore, the letter said that the EC believed “[the agency’s] current management is a serious risk to the proper utilisation and good reputation of European structural funds.”This was the third such letter sent to Bulgarian authorities this year and the second received by the current Government.

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