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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8627

21 January 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/budget/regional
Towards "half and half" allocation of future regional aid between old and new Member States?

Brussels, 20/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - According to the estimates of the Commissioner for Regional Policy, Michel Barnier, the future Member States of the EU will receive around half of all regional aid paid for out of the Community budget, the rest going to current members. This principle of equal distribution of regional aid between Member States old and new "is not a political decision, but a result of the forecasts we are able to make at this point" on the basis of data available,...

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