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Zagreb - Croatian MPs on Wednesday commended the work and results of the Agency for Mobility and EU Programmes, stressing that its work was free of any scandals and that it implemented programmes with multiple benefits.
This is one of the few agencies whose work since its establishment in 2007 has been free of any scandals, it is user-oriented and has 102 employees whose average age is 39, said HDZ MP Vesna Bedeković in a debate on a government proposal to amend the law on that agency.
Bedeković said that 4,410 projects worth €214 million were contracted from 2011 to the end of 2020 through the Erasmus programme alone, involving 115,000 Croatian citizens.
The legal amendments are mostly due to the fact that one EU programming period has ended, including, among other things, in two key programmes, Erasmus+ and Horizon, said SDP MP Sabina Glasovac.
We have successfully used the benefits provided by that international collaboration and since Croatia's EU entry around 112,000 citizens have participated in the Erasmus+ programme, half of them in mobility programmes abroad, she said.
HDZ MP Rade Šimičević said that the most important programme for the Agency was Erasmus+, whose budget at the EU level for the 2021-2027 period amounted to €26.2 billion and which focused on social inclusion, green and digital transition, and on promoting active citizenship.