The Parliament’s development committee is pressing for 150 million ecu of EU aid…

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Series Details 19/09/96, Volume 2, Number 34
Publication Date 19/09/1996
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Date: 19/09/1996

...for the Mediterranean to be reallocated to poorer areas of the world in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). The MEPs' demand comes as EU governments are aiming to reduce the Union's 1997 external relations budget by 15&percent;. Euro MPs complain that developing countries are being penalised, while Mediterranean countries are able to spend only a fraction of their allocation of EU funds.

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