Brussels, 11/10/2011 (Agence Europe) - EU ministers, meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday 11 October, gave a relatively warm reception to proposals on rules for implementing cohesion policy from 2014 to 2020. Criticism focused on the macroeconomic conditions which would see the suspension of structural funding to countries which fail to abide by the rules of the stability and growth pact, and on the capping of European funding at 2.5% of the GDP of each member state.
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