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Skopje, 3 September 2024 (MIA) – The criminals will not profit from the Corridor 8 project, namely the construction of the branch to the border with Bulgaria, and the government with Brussels’ help will find a technical solution, emphasized Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski today.
– We are in communication with those responsible in Brussels, we are ready for a technical dialogue. We accepted the offer to participate in the process in Brussels where together we will find a technical solution. And it is good that we fought to not spend at least 500 million euros of Macedonian taxpayers’ money and 250 million euros of European taxpayers’ money on a procedure full of technical deficiencies and well-founded suspicion of corruption and crime, said Mickoski.
Mickoski asked for patience regarding the issue of reporting the offered bribe for the project’s realization.
– What is important is that these criminals will not profit from this project, because the Ministry of Transport withdrew the members from the tender commission. The tender commission now has no legitimacy to decide, and I expect this tender procedure to be canceled for part 3 of Corridor 8, namely the railway between Kumanovo and the Bulgaria border crossing, said Mickoski.
According to him, it is good that the citizens will not spend half a billion euros on the construction of, as he emphasized, half a tunnel in a dead-end street and that the houses of 30 families from Kriva Palanka will not be demolished. (3 September)