We will need a miracle to be able to save 100% of the funding under the Recovery and Resilience Plan. In four years, we have absorbed 6% and left 94% for the last year and a half.
This was what MEP from GERB-SDF/EPP and member of the Security and Defense and Regional Development Committees in the European Parliament Andrey Novakov told FOCUS.
According to him, the task of Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev is overwhelming. "I believe that his vast experience in working with European funding, on the one hand, and the good communication and trust that our regular government has in Brussels, on the other, would help the European Commission to be lenient towards Bulgaria. I believe that the rapid pace with which the regular cabinet has started working will help us lose less money, because at the moment the work on the Plan is catastrophic“, said Novakov.
The PVU regulation, on the other hand, is flexible and while it is being implemented, changes can be made according to the priorities of the respective member state, added the MEP. "In my opinion, the key lies in the following: projects that can be implemented quickly and that have high added value, such as renovation. If we start doing something grandiose, for which we need an impact assessment, design, selection of a contractor, the chances of losing money in this procedure are high. If we invest in something simpler, such as street lighting, through which you can save money, or rehabilitation of a key route of our infrastructure - energy, road or some other, it is good“, Novakov gave examples.