Carinthia in EU

At the occasion of the Europe Day , which will be on May 8th, the Carinthian Government publicated on its website some interesting information regarding Carinthia in the European Union. From 2007 to 2013 Carinthia received referred to agricultural initiatives 694,4 millions Euro, for cross-border projects additionally 23,8 millions Euro, further for support of economy 67,4 millions Euro and 20,5 millions Euro more for measures against unemployment and poverty. The above mentioned are initiatives from the so called » structural funds », which were given from the side of the Union to Austria as co-financing. These amounts were then split to federal units and spent by different subjects in Carinthia. The EU budget ( more years financial frame from December 12th, 2013 ) is in total 908 billions Euro.