Labor ministry dumps EU-fund oversight agency

The scheme envisaged the creation of a 400-person agency which would manage EU funds. The agency was to be called the Polish Agency for Developing Human Resources (PARZL) and its annual expenses were projected at about zł.22 million. "Creating an agency would breach the foundations of limiting additional costs in the sector of public finances", reads the opinion of the Finance Ministry. The current office-holders in the Labor Ministry are not planning to continue work on the new agency and the deputy minister, Bogdan Socha, was surprised that the document was sent for inter-department consultations while he was already in the office. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A3) M.M.