Fifty EU-funded infrastructure projects for Eastern Europe were disputed Monday because of their environmental consequences.

This happened in Brussels at a press conference of the Friends of the Earth (FoE)- Europe organization. According to FoE, the projects in question were detrimental to the environment, and the billions of euros for them would be spend in vain.

The fifty disputed Eastern European projects are worth EUR 10 B in total, and the six Bulgarian projects of these are worth some EUR 5 B.

The disputed infrastructure projects for Bulgaria include the Lyulin Motorway, Sofia Municipality's garbage disposal management, the expansion of Sofia Airport, and the construction of Bulgaria's second nuclear power plant at the town of Belene.

The Bulgarian members of FoE - Europe declared Bulgarian projects were often flawed which caused long delays in their approval and execution.

With respect to the garbage disposal system of Bulgaria's capital, they said the problem with finding a new dumpsite had to be resolved, and that more attention should be paid to recycling.

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