The EU will enter in hard negotiations for the funding, after 2006, of the structural and regional policy funds aimed to help the poorer regions of the Union.
In a press conference held today (18 December) by the EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Michel Barnier, the need to cope with future inequalities in the EU became all the more clear.
The EU budget has a spending ceiling set at 1.27 percent of the EU GDP, which means that the next negotiations after enlargement - with 25 co...
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