Brussels, 16/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - In response to the appeal from the German minister of finance, Hans Eichel for a "painful" reduction in Community budget spending for 2007-13, Commissioner Michaele Schreyer warned that cohesion policy in the Eastern regions of Germany would be the main victim of such action. In an interview to the Financial Times Deutschland on Monday, the Commissioner explained that if they set an average ceiling of 1.00% of EU Gross National Income (GNI) as suggested...