EU member states have supported proposed new rules to unveil individual recipients of all EU funds starting in 2008, with the EU25 asking the European Commission to run a central database for the information.
The transparency principle is part of a revised EU financial regulation the bloc's ambassadors adopted on Thursday (19 October) and paves the way for a publication of beneficiaries of EU farm aid as well as of regional and cohesion funds.
Concrete details must still be worked...