WRITTEN QUESTION P-0860/04
by Eluned Morgan (PSE)
to the Commission

In your answer to my written question  P-0524/04[1], you detail the constitutional position of a region of the current EU, if  it were to become a fully independent state.  Could you clarify the position of  such a state, in relation to EU funding?

 

Specifically; if a region within the EU were to become an independent state (therefore outside of the EU), what would happen to the European funding it had been receiving? Would the funding stop immediately, or would it continue to the end of the funding programme, for example the 2000-2006 Structural Funds programme?

 

What EU funds would a newly independent state be eligible for?

 

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