Deputy Development Minister Odysseas Constantinopoulos announced today that the absorption rate of the NSRF funds (co-financed part) increased by 10.3% by the beginning of October compared to the same period in 2014.

The Deputy minister noted that the absorption percentage reached 53.2% of the total funds from 48.3% in the corresponding period of 2013, resulting in the offering of an additional 600 million euros of funds to the market.

Mr. Constantinopoulos underlined that the Ministry will intensify its efforts for the full absorption of NSRF funds until the end of the year.