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Miklos: We Want Build Highways Faster Than Fico, But From EU Funds
Wednesday 14 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - The strongest opposition party SDKU-DS is not opposed to building highways, but is expressing criticism over how the roads are being built at the moment. This is according to SDKU vice-chairman Ivan Miklos, who on Wednesday also said that his party is willing to boost motorway construction.
Miklos was responding to Prime Minister Robert Fico's statement that if Slovakia is ruled by what he calls a "right-wing jumble" (featuring SDKU-DS, plus the new rightist Freedom and Solidarity, Christian Democrat KDH, ethnic-Hungarian SMK and Most-Hid), large-scale investments and the launched projects of public-private partnership (PPP) in the country would be under attack.
"We're against the practice of putting the country into further debts in such an excessive way as can be seen now, also via launching PPPs," said Miklos, adding that the main problem lies in the fact that the current Government is signing overpriced PPP projects instead of using money from EU funds to build highways. In his opinion, this will increase the country's debts, which the future generations will have to pay.
On the other hand, Miklos said they would not avoid PPPs if in power, but the emphasis would be put on drawing the funds from the European Union. According to him, this alternative is being neglected by the current Government mainly because effectiveness of the use of money from Brussels is under the strict eye of auditors, which makes no room for signing overpriced projects and excluding international consortiums from competition, as is now the case of PPP projects vis-a-vis motorway construction.
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