At a recent congress in Sofia, construction industry association chief Simeon Peshov begged a top EU official to “unfreeze the money so that the major tenders can go ahead.”
Bulgaria “needs help now, not after the elections,” he said.
But the EU’s regional development chief, Carsten Ramussen, was unbending.
“Bulgaria has to some extent got off on the wrong foot and won a rather bad image in a short period. If there is something I cannot promise you, it is to leave the road agency alone,” he said.
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