Bulgaria may fail to get over 600 million euros due to corruptive practices in handling EU pre-accession funds, which are seen to be revealed in the European Commission’s progress report, the Financial Times said.
The funding is aimed at upgrading infrastructure.
The payment of another 4.5 billion euros under the EU structural funds in the next five years might be delayed for the same reason.
The freeze of aid for Bulgaria’s infrastructure could deal a blow at its goal to become an energy and transport centre by 2015.
Bulgaria was recently hit by a corruption scandal at its national road infrastructure fund, which led to the arrest of its head and to its closure.
As part of efforts to speed up the disbursement of EU funds, the government in May named Meglena Plugchieva as deputy prime minister to oversee the restructuring of agencies responsible for the transfers.
The EC report is due to be released this week.
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