UK could continue EU peace funding for Northern Ireland after Brexit, May says

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UK could continue EU peace funding for Northern Ireland after Brexit, May says

 

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers her keynote "Brexit speech" in Lancaster House in London, 17 January 2017. REUTERS/Facuno Arrizabalaga/Pool/Files

 

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Britain will consider replacing some European Union funding for peace projects in Northern Ireland after it leaves the bloc in 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.

 

The European Union has provided billions of euros of aid for the province since a 1998 peace deal ended three decades of violence between Irish nationalists and British unionists in which 3,600 people died.

 

"We ... want the EU funding that has helped victims of the Troubles and cross-community groups to continue at least until the current programme finishes," May said in an article in the Irish News newspaper.

 

"We then want to go further, and explore a potential future programme of peace funding after we leave the EU," May said.

 

The British government had earlier committed to guaranteeing funding under the EU's Peace initiative until the current round of funding ends in 2020.

 

(Reporting by Conor Humphries; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-08-16

[tomacht8]

There are more than 500 other EU projects in the UK that want to be further financed.
Education, science, research, regional development compensation, business start-ups, production, settlement awards, agra subsidies, trade development,  databases, finance, media development, Euroatom, Galileo,  Space Exploration, infrastructure, ......
This will be very bloody for the current recipients of EU programs and financial aids.
But that was known to everyone at the time of the Brexit referendum.

Edited August 16, 2017 by tomacht8

[Baerboxer]

15 hours ago, tomacht8 said:

There are more than 500 other EU projects in the UK that want to be further financed.
Education, science, research, regional development compensation, business start-ups, production, settlement awards, agra subsidies, trade development,  databases, finance, media development, Euroatom, Galileo,  Space Exploration, infrastructure, ......
This will be very bloody for the current recipients of EU programs and financial aids.
But that was known to everyone at the time of the Brexit referendum.

 

The EU will have to honor all funding commitments in the same way it wants Britain to honor its commitments.

 

No double standards.