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2007-10-18 00:00:00
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Distribution of EU funds in Poland seen as flawed by local officials
October 18, 2007
The selection of projects for billions of euros of EU funding in is widely perceived by Polish municipalities to be politically-driven and non-transparent, new research conducted by Bankwatch member group the Institute of Environmental Economics (IEE) has found. The alarming findings are based on an anonymous questionnaire survey of 160 Polish municipalities on how they view the process of appraisal and selection of projects that applied for funding to the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) between 2004 and 2006. The results show that 49 percent of the municipalities believe that the project selection procedure was non-transparent and 44 percent that it was not objective. Fifty-two percent of the respondents see politically-driven choices as one of the main weaknesses of the project
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