More money for EU foreign policy, says Finland
(B2) The (young) Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Alexander Stubb (former MEP), considers that European funds should be redirected more towards foreign policy. " We must reduce agricultural aid and direct more credits to innovations, technology and above all to foreign and security policy he explained in a newspaper interview Present day. In the EU budget for 2010, foreign and security policy will only have 282 million euros out of the total of 138 billion, he points out. It's too little for him. Because " this is an area where the EU is very useful on the world stage ».
(photo: Alexander Stubb at the NATO ministerial meeting in discussion with B. Kouchner, August 2008. Credit: NATO)
