Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party Chairperson, Prof Arnold Cassola, said today, “whilst the government finds no difficulty in creating a 100,000 euro job for a Minister’s wife or promoting 7 colonels in one go, with relative salaries, for an army of 2000, it has suspended all funding for MEUSAC civil society and has not paid one euro of the 400,000 euros voted for financing Local Councils EU-funded projects for 2013. Does the government have its priorities right?”
Carmel Cacopardo, AD spokesperson for Home Affairs and Sustainable Development, stated that “the Local Council funds utilised for co-Financing EU projects are necessary and essential for Local Councils. Without them they cannot participate in EU funded projects. The fact that 9 months into the year not one single payment has been made to Local Councils out of these Funds is worrying.”
AD said that it “calls upon the Government to release the said funds immediately.”