24/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - The new German government seems to be taking on the battle announced by former Chancellor Schroder and the Minister-President of Bavaria, Edmund Stoiber, to cut EU Structural Fund money for Member States where businesses have low taxation. The German version of the Financial Times, Financial Times Deutschland, quotes Alfred Hartenbach, parliamentary secretary of state at the justice ministry, who said at a press conference in Cologne on Monday that Germany would try to get funding under the EU Structural Funds cut for countries where company taxation (taking account of economic performance) falls below a specific percentage. He was echoed at the same press conference by parliamentary secretary of state at the health ministry, Barbara Hendricks, reports the FT Deutschland.