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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10021

18 November 2009
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
Common Agricultural Policy and Cohesion Policy are key to European project and should be updated rather than watered down

Traditional view. Old-hands at this Europe game are well aware that the current wave of criticism of EU funding for agriculture and the cohesion policy is nothing new but has been around for donkeys' years. The generally recommended approach to regional affairs was to decentralise expenditure back to the member states. This line of thinking sees it as madness to try and manage from Brussels the allocation of aid for backward regions. Member states that are net contributors to the EU budget...

Contents

A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS
THE DAY IN POLITICS
GENERAL NEWS