Farmers reap fruit of EU funding
www.timesofmalta.com - Wednesday, August 11, 2010
A nostalgic elderly farmer leaned against his walking stick as his grandson ploughed the land using a tractor equipped to plant seeds and harvest crops automatically.
The machinery, together with an automated irrigation system, which was partly financed by EU funds, is in stark contrast to the suffering his forefathers used to endure.

Berlin's 'creative boom' finds backing from EU
www.euractiv.com - Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Although Germany's capital is short on big businesses, small enterprises are abundant, with creative industries in particular blossoming faster than in other cities. In Berlin, this creative boom is aided by a project which helps SMEs to deal with the bureaucratic procedure of obtaining EU regional funds. EurActiv Germany reports.

National parliaments debate EU’s future regional policy
www.euractiv.com - Wednesday, August 11, 2010
National and EU parliamentarians meeting in Brussels earlier this week (12-13 July) held a debate on the future of European regional policy, resulting in many opinions including a call for the European Social Fund to remain under regional policy control.
Danuta Hübner, chair of the European Parliament's regional development committee and a former EU regional policy commissioner, told EurActiv that the meeting was important for its form as well as its content.

Mayor urges local commitment to ‘Europe 2020’ plan
www.euractiv.com - Monday, July 05, 2010
Local leaders must be given the freedom to create tailor-made solutions for making the 'Europe 2020' growth strategy work, but must likewise take more responsibility for doing so, Lodewijk Asscher, acting Mayor of Amsterdam, told EurActiv in an interview.

EU adopts new measures to simplify management of funds to help regions tackle the crisis
European Commission - Monday, July 05, 2010
The EU has on 24 June 2010 adopted new measures aimed at simplifying management rules for the structural and cohesion funds. The changes should help to facilitate access to the funds and accelerate flows of investment at a time when public budgets are under pressure. As part of the measures to counter the economic crisis, additional advance payments totalling €775 million will be paid out to some member countries to tackle immediate cash flow problems.

Regional policy gets the ball rolling
European Commission - Monday, July 05, 2010
The 2010 FIFA World Cup is upon us, offering a perfect opportunity to highlight one of regional policy's lesser-known aspects: its contribution in the field of sports. While sport is seldom at the forefront of regional policy, it can have an important impact on regional economic development and competitiveness, acting as a catalyst for economic growth and innovation and helping to create new jobs and businesses. A case in point is the football stadium in Maribor, Slovenia which was revamped with the support of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with positive knock-on effects for local businesses.

Regions in Ireland, Spain receive EU funds to fight jobs crisis
www.euractiv.com - Saturday, June 19, 2010
The European Parliament yesterday (15 June) approved EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGAF) aid for regions in Ireland and Spain, two of the EU countries hit hardest by the global recession. The funding should be seen as a "hand-up, not a hand-out," MEPs said.
A Strasbourg plenary session of the Parliament approved two Spanish requests and one Irish bid for funding.

European funding creates jobs boost
www.nebusiness.co.uk - Saturday, June 19, 2010
More than £200m of European funding is helping to create more than 11,000 jobs and almost 2,700 new businesses across the North-east, it has been claimed. Regional development agency One North East also said £65m of projects had given the green light in the last twelve months after securing investment from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) - including £1.73m for the development of a new business start-up incubator at Wilton and £1m for an innovation and technical support facility in Middlesbroug

Solidarity Fund money must be delivered for the wave of floods in Europe
European Parliament - Saturday, June 19, 2010
In a resolution adopted on Thursday, 17th of June, MEPs say the EU Solidarity Fund must be made available as swiftly as possible to help the regions stricken by the torrential floods.

The EU signs the financial stabilisation mechanism
Spanish Presidency - Tuesday, June 08, 2010
The Eurozone finance ministers signed this Monday the financial stability mechanism that was designed a month ago in order to help those countries in danger of insolvency. It could mean the mobilisation of up to 750,000 million euros.

The European Union associates the Faroe Islands to the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7)
DG Research - Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Today the European Commission announced that the European Union signed a Science & Technology Cooperation Agreement with the Faroe Islands. This agreement will associate the Faroe Islands to the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7, 2007-2013) and will further promote their involvement with the European Research Area. It brings the total number of countries associated to FP7 to 13.

EU launches 2010 call for sport projects
www.euractiv.com - Tuesday, June 08, 2010
The European Commission last week launched a call for proposals for transnational projects to prepare the ground for a future EU sport programme, the first limited version of which should be kicked off in 2012.

Less paperwork and more focus on results: Commission reviews rules for access to EU funds
European Commission - Tuesday, June 01, 2010
Changes have been adopted by the Commissio to simplify access to EU funds by cutting red tape and saving costs for EU beneficiaries. The new rules will provide more scope for combining public and private funding for a bigger investment impact. The changes will help deliver the new generation of EU programmes post 2013.

As a major contribution to the Union for the Mediterranean: InfraMed Infrastructure Fund is launched
European Commission - Newsroom - Thursday, May 27, 2010
Caisse des Dépôts (CDC), Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), the European Investment Bank (EIB), Caisse de Dépôt et de Gestion (CDG) and EFG Hermes have launched InfraMed Infrastructure, the first financing facility of the Union for the Mediterranean.

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