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SGI: EC Won't Finance Social Enterprises, It'll Be Slovak Taxpayers
Wednesday 13 January 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, January 13 (TASR) - The European Commission (EC) has found significant shortcomings in the overall management of the pilot project for so-called social enterprises launched last year by the Labour, Social Affairs and the Family Ministry, said Slovak Governance Institute (SGI) head Miroslav Beblavy on Wednesday.
SGI claims that it has at its disposal the unofficial results of the EC's inspection of the project at the ministry and has confirmation from various sources that the Finance Ministry has been refusing to finance the project since July 2009. "On this basis, there's a very high risk today that the European Union won't pay anything for the pilot social enterprises, or only a small proportion (of the costs). Millions of euros that have been paid out by the ministry will probably have to be covered by Slovak tax-payers," said Beblavy.
Regarding this information, Beblavy called on Prime Minister Robert Fico to verify the facts himself and dismiss Labour Minister Viera Tomanova if they are proven to be true. "She personally took the project under her remit, ignoring all the existing warnings about the risks, and didn't take any early corrective measures," he added.
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