Bulgarian govt faces no-confidence over misuse of EU funds

[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Bulgarian govt faces no-confidence over misuse of EU funds




Bulgarian Prime Minister Serguei Stanishev gives a speech in Strasbourg, eastern France in 2006. Bulgaria's right-wing opposition has tabled a new no-confidence motion in parliament against the government over its impotence to prevent the misuse of EU subsidies.(AFP/File/Olivier Morin)

SOFIA (AFP) - Bulgaria's right-wing opposition on Wednesday tabled a new no-confidence motion in parliament against the government over its impotence to prevent the misuse of EU subsidies.

The motion, the sixth against the centre-left government since it took office in 2005, was tabled just an hour ahead of the scheduled presentation in Brussels of a scathing European Commission report on Sofia's poor handling of EU money and its failure to curb corruption and crime.

"This government dealt irreparable material and moral damages to its country," the opposition said in the motives to the motion Wednesday.
"Bulgaria has so far lost over one million euros (of subsidies) due to grand corruption, non-compliance with the (EU) rules, and the inadequate and incompetent behaviour of the government," it added.

The five right-wing parties in parliament which supported the motion slammed the recent freezing of money from EU's pre-accession farming, infrastructure and regional development programmes (SAPARD, ISPA, and PHARE) and called for early elections.

Parliament will vote on the motion next week but it stands no serious chances of success as the government coalition has a total of 150 deputies in the 240-seat legislature.

In order to pass it needs support from over half of all deputies.

Bulgaria's Socialist-led government of Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev ushered the country into the European Union in 2007 but has so far seen its public opinion approval ratings plummeting.

The latest Eurobarometer survey, published last week, showed that some 73 percent of the people polled no longer trusted their government, with an approval rate reaching its lowest since the country joined the bloc.

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They have mistaken the premier name- Sergay Stanishev or bate Sergo.More than 85% don't trust the goverment.Interesting thing about government coalition is that the leaders of the 3 parties are not Bulgarian,maybe Simeon half bulgarian,half spanish,Dogan-Turk and bate Sergo-ukranian
They talk shit every day and nobody trust them.They said several days ago that Bulgaria has no Mafia and no unemployment in whole Bulgaria

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Serguei Stanishev comic face