Bulgaria is striving to absorb up to EUR 2 B for transport and infrastructure from the EU funding

Bulgaria's authorities are striving to absorb up to EUR 2 B for transport and infrastructure from the EU funding slated for the country for the 2007-2013 financial programming period, Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has stated.

Moskovski told students at the Sofia University of Architecture, Construction, and Geodesy on Wednesday that 1/3 of the total funding for Bulgaria under EU Operational Program "Transport" have already reached the end beneficiaries.

Thus, over EUR 308 M have been paid under OP Transport to the Bulgarian beneficiaries only in 2011, which is three times the amount absorbed in 2007-2010, Novinite.com reports.