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January 14, 2005
EU funding I
Scotland will probably lose several hundred million pounds of annual European Union development aid from 2007. This will be diverted to aid the poorer, new members of the EU. Alex Neil of the SNP calls this “very, very bad news for Scotland”, and urges the executive to fight the issue.
We also need to see the big economic picture here. Scotland should behave as a responsible (future/potential) partner in Europe. We will benefit in various ways from the enlargement of the EU, and we need to support the new member states. We may need to look elsewhere for more appropriate sources of funding for regional infrastructure projects.
news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=47972005
Posted by Simon Holledge at January 14, 2005 10:08 PM
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