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BSP MP, and former Minister for the Management of the EU Funds, Meglena Plugchieva, says the huge bonuses awarded to State servants in times of crisis are cynical. Photo by BGNES
The Bulgarian State Fund Agriculture has distributed BGN 1 M in bonuses to employees while BGN 800 000 have been given to those working for the Agriculture Ministry.
The news was reported Wednesday during a special press conference by the Member of the Parliament from the opposition, left-wing Bulgarian Socialist Party, BSP, and former Minister for the Management of the EU Funds, Meglena Plugchieva.
"This unacceptable cynics in times of economic crisis and the wide-spread poverty Bulgarians have been condemned to. In addition, all these generous bonuses come on the backdrop of the failures in the farming policies," Plugchieva said.
In the second week of February, the Bulgarian "Trud" daily reported that nearly BGN 1.2 M have been paid as bonuses at the Fund Agriculture – a body that deals with payments from EU funds to beneficiaries in the farming sector.
The CEO of the Fund, Rumen Porozhanov, who until March 2011 was Chief of Staff of Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, said that "when there are good accomplishments, it would be normal to give cash bonuses," adding many of his staff work overtime on weekends when farmers usually apply for EU subsidies.
The latest revelations came on the heels of headline news about huge bonuses given to employees at a number of State institutions such as the Finance Ministry, the National Health Insurance Fund, NZOK, and the Registry Agency, prompting a wave if resignations and dismissals.
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