Regions face big battle over future EU funding

The EU will face a hard time negotiating the budget for the next seven years after 2006, Le Monde believes, if the current debate on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the structural funds and regional policy is anything to go by.

These are the Common policies of the EU.

In addition to that, the Convention, which drafted the EU future constitution, did not succeed in changing the rules for EU funding and its common policies, Le Monde says.

The next budget decision will ...