site.btaParliament to Hear PM, Ministers, National Electricity Company Representatives on Water Supply from Arda River to Greece

During its regular sitting on Thursday, the National Assembly will hear representatives of the Executive on the regulated water supply from the Arda River to Greece in relation to the needs of Greek farmers, Parliament's weekly programme shows. The question of what actions the government is taking to protect national interests will be answered by Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, the Ministers of Environment and Water and of Agriculture and Food, a representative of the Energy ministry and of the National Electricity Company (NEK). The hearing is at the request of MPs from Vazrazhdane. 

On Wednesday, Vazrazhdane leader Kostadin Kostadinov said that NEK has extended to the end of summer the agreement for free provision of almost the entire flow of the Arda River to Greece. In his words, the scandal is huge. "Since the agreement expired last year, we are surprised to hear that the NEK, without having the right to do so, has made an agreement, and not with the State but with some of the Greek regions and districts of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, to temporarily extend this agreement until the end of the summer, which means that tens of millions of Bulgarian cubic meters of water have been given for free, no longer as reparations [from World War II], but simply as a decision of the NEK," Kostadinov said.