In an interview with Latvian Television, President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga said that she is ashamed of Latvia’s current lagging behind the other Baltic states. She encouraged more use of the opportunities provided by the European Union (EU).
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“These statistics are not flattering,” Saeima deputy Rihards Kols said succinctly in TV24’s “Ziņu TOP” program. According to him, questions could be asked about the management of EU funds, about the heavy bureaucratic “stones” that hinder various processes and possibly prevent some strategic investors from entering, which are not only EU funds.
“Second, fund administration. Now, of course, we have everything centrally monitored and monitored. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office is still looking to see if EU funds are being misused. But before that, we treated EU funds quite lightly.”
The Saeima member remembers that
at the very beginning, in the first planning period, there was a natural person who had founded 200 companies just to be able to acquire funds from the funds faster.
Kol emphasizes that it was important for this entrepreneur to learn, not to invest money from EU funds.
“I think this is where we need to change that mindset! We invest EU funds to improve our well-being and economy,” says Saeima member Kols.
It is clear that there was no such approach. Those indicators that are ineligible costs are visible. This percentage is quite a high number for EU funds. This indicator, compared to Estonia and Lithuania, is also not the best.
Most likely, this will be the final planning period: “The year 2027 is practically one where the previous volumes, which were for EU funds, cohesion and others, will practically no longer exist. It was a period in which countries had to strive to reach its average level.
Of course, everyone is given equal opportunities. The starting shot, when the EU enlargement took place, 10 countries joined. All had the same starting shot. Now we can measure ourselves what we have done right or wrong.”
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