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245			_aBrussels to give £2.6bn in regional aid
260			_c2001
490			_aFinancial Times _v28 February 2001, 4(1)
520			_aThe European Commission has announced £2.59bn in aid over six years for ten UK regions. The grants from the EU structural fund will allow the creation of 277,000 jobs in east England, east Wales, Hastings, London, the North-East, the North-West, Scotland, the South West, Thanet, the West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside, and the safeguarding of a further 100,000. The funding is conditional on further investment from the public and private sectors in the UK and should result in a total spending of 27.78bn Euros by 2006.
650			_aENGLAND
650			_aEUROPEAN COMMISSION
650			_aEUROPEAN FUNDING
650			_aEUROPEAN UNION
650			_aGRANTS
650			_aHASTINGS
650			_aLONDON
650			_aNORTHEAST ENGLAND
650			_aNORTH WEST ENGLAND
650			_aOBJECTIVE ONE FUNDING
650			_aREGIONAL AID
650			_aREGIONS
650			_aSOUTH WEST ENGLAND
650			_aSTRUCTURAL FUNDS
650			_aTHANET
650			_aWALES
650			_aWEST MIDLANDS
690			_aECONOMIC ISSUES
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