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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-02-23
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[01] Satisfaction over funds absorption
[01] Satisfaction over funds absorption
EU Regional Policy Commissioner Danuta Hubner on Monday expressed her
satisfaction over absorption rates of a Third Community Support
Framework program (2000-2006) by Greece.
Speaking to Greek reporters in Brussels, ahead of an official three-day
visit to Greece, starting on Wednesday, Hubner said the absorption rate
reached 93 pct and stressed that ?Greece has won the battle of
absorption? while she expressed her confidence that the country would
be able to absorb the total of available EU funds by June 30.
During her stay in Greece, the Commissioner will meet with Prime
Minister Costas Karamanlis, Economy Minister Yiannis Papathanasiou,
Development Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and Interior Minister Prokopis
Pavlopoulos, while she will visit the regions of Epirus and Ionian
Islands. Hubner said community support to Epirus in the period
2007-2013 would total 799 million euros, while another 430 million
euros were earmarked for the Ionian Islands.
The Commissioner said she would ask for an acceleration of projects
included in the Fourth Community Support Framework program (2007-2013)
and noted that advance payments to Greece so far totaled 1.5 billion
euros, with the aim of approving another 408 million euros by early
May.
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