Deputy Infrastructure Minister stands up to his critics, over road budget

This year, Poland will use all 100% of the financial resources allocated in the budget for the construction of roads and highways, Deputy Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Skowroński announced yesterday. In this way, he stood up to the accusations of the Law and Justice party (PiS) who claim that of the zł. 3.8 billion envisaged for the construction of roads and highways, only 60% had so far been spent, with the government wasting million zlotys earmarked for this investment. "There is no such danger and we will be able to useall the resources 100% (...) and if there were more we would be able to use those as well" said Skowroński. Also adding that it may be difficult to use the allocated European Union subsidies since the capacities of the Polish budget are very modest. "We have to have our own financial resources to generate the EU ones" he said. (www.onet.pl) A.Z.