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More conceptual projects are needed to be included in the Recovery and Sustainability Plan, said in an interview with BTA Dr. Rumyana Grozeva, Executive Director of the Agency for Regional Development Economic Development in Stara Zagora and Doctor of Economics from the Institute for Economic Research of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
government. The instrument is created for the purpose of European support for recovery from the pandemic of COVID-19.
According to Rumyana Grozeva, we are not ready with enough conceptual projects under the Plan. This is the situation at both national and regional level.
“And the approach itself is puzzling – in preparing the Plan, the state institutions responsible for its preparation did not look at all for the municipalities in the region that will be most affected. Yes, there is a dedicated Territorial Plan for a Fair Transition for the region, but the types of projects eligible for funding are radically different. No connection has been sought between the two types of plans in order to ensure maximum effect “, the economist commented.
The territorial plans for fair transition, for the preparation of which the company Pricewaterhouse Cooper is engaged in, are a necessary condition for the transition regions to receive funding from the Fair Transition Fund, through which our country has agreed 1.3 billion euros by 2027
There is a very significant shortage of capacity for generating ideas in the countries of Eastern and Central Europe. Poland and the Czech Republic have moved forward because they have managed to implement joint projects. We have been closed in the framework of operational programs that we implement at national level with EU funding – in the EU talk about digitalization, artificial intelligence, industry 5.0 – we continue to talk about technological modernization, which is the leitmotif of our pre-accession period.
In order to support the process of drafting the Territorial Plan for Stara Zagora, the consulting company drew a parallel with a region in transition in Slovakia – Gorna Nitra, one of the 40 in the territory of The EU, including the Stara Zagora region, is expected to lose 4,000 jobs there, and their colleagues received more than 400 project ideas during the preparation of their fair transition plan.
In Bulgaria, in the region of Stara Zagora, where the figures for the affected persons vary from 12 to 300 thousand people, our project ideas are about 60. The difference is huge.
I think we have unrealistic expectations from the consulting company. Its commitment is to support the development of ideas, not to create ideas.
The situation in Kyustendil and Pernik, the other two Bulgarian cities affected by the green transformation, is identical.
Project preparation from time immemorial is a challenge for Stara Zagora – it is necessary to work further to improve relations, coordination, communication between organizations, institutions, local authorities, regional authorities, NGOs and the civil sector , business. To build institutionality at local / regional level in this direction. Changing positions in state power also creates difficulties, she commented.
“We have to say for ourselves what we think are the projects we need to implement in order to have a smooth transition, for to have an economy based on the resources we have. I reiterate that Maritza East must continue to play a leading role in this transition and have a quality of life that we all want, “the economist recommended.
According to her, the Maritza-East complex has a future, but we must look strategically at its development.
(Coal power plants should not be closed in the sense that most people do. they present it: tomorrow we turn the key and that’s it. According to the EU’s Joint Research Council, the region is among the three most promising in the EU and has the best potential for green hydrogen production, “said Rumyana Grozeva.
She added that Zagore Industrial Zone is of interest to investors, but most often the condition is more land, which is not available. In the Plan, the district proposes the expansion of the industrial zone “Zagore” with new 600 decares and the creation of a photovoltaic plant for the needs of green energy investors in order to solve the problem of lack of large terrains.
In the last four years, 35,000 residents of the Stara Zagora region have started working in Plovdiv because they found work in the Thrace Economic Zone, says the economist.
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