29/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - Eberhard Sinner, Bavarian European affairs minister, has sharply criticised Chancellor Schröder in a press statement for having done nothing for the eastern Bavarian border regions, whereas, Austria, he claims, has negotiated special funding for its border regions to the tune of EUR 150 million. Sinner insists that border regions in the older EU Member States still have to get targeted structural funds after 2006. He considers that, “in order to mitigate the...