Malta is among one of four EU countries that still have to submit their operational programmes identifying the projects to be carried out using EU funds, according to Nationalist Party European Affairs spokeswoman Marthese Portelli.

It was worrying that the operational programme had not been submitted as they were crucial in informing the EU how Malta planned to use the €1.1 billion in funds covering the period 2014 to 2020.

She added that the Labour government had only submitted its partnership agreements four days ago.

In retaliation to her statement, the government said that the Opposition insisted in living in a world of its own.

It ignored the fact that, under the Nationalist government, only 33 per cent of EU funds had been used up for the period 2009 to 2013. That figure increased to almost 60 per cent since March 2013, when there was a change in government.

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