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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8893

22 February 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial perspectives
Baltic States claim to be at disadvantage in method of calculating ceiling for structural aid

Brussels, 21/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - Whereas the vast majority of the Member States are in agreement with the European Commission to keep the current ceiling of cohesion and rural development policy aid (4% of national GDP) for 2007 to 2013, the Finance Ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopted a joint declaration in Riga on 11 February, in which they stress that the calculation method used to set this ceiling is unfavourable to them. They are calling for the method for this...

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