EU grants produced an additional 0.8&percent; growth in the Spanish economy between 1994 and 1999…

Date: 14/01/1999

...and boosted job creation in east Germany by around 1&percent;, according to a new European Commission report. The institution said the billions of euro channelled into the Union's poorest regions and its most sparsely populated areas in the north had helped narrow the gap with their richer neighbours.