During the next seven years, Bulgaria will receive close to EUR 7 B from the European Union, Finance Ministry officials have announced.
The country had to prepare a certain set of papers for the cash and the Council of Ministers approved those papers last week. They have been officially deposited in Brussels on March 5, Boryana Pencheva, head of the "EU Funds Management" directorate in the Ministry told Darik News.
We have decided to have fewer programmes so it would be easier to realize them, she said.
The biggest amount would go for transportation, with ecology and regional development coming in right after, Pencheva explained. The "transport" programme would require almost EUR 2 B for highways and roads on the main transport corridors.