HIGHLANDS and Islands Euro-MP Winnie Ewing yesterday appealed to the
Government to allow some of the #260m to #300m Objective 1 money,
earmarked for her constituency, to be used to help to establish a new
university of the Highlands and Islands.
Speaking in Inverness, she said: ''My own view is that we should take
advantage of the new provisions in Objective 1 that permit a member
state to include health and education, which had been excluded in the
last package.''
She added: ''But I have said to all concerned that if it looks as
though the Scottish Office is absolutely fixed on not including health
and education, we will have to make one fight for an exception, namely
the Highland university.''
Meanwhile, Mrs Ewing thought there was now a strong possibility that
Grampian's coastal areas and agricultural hinterland, as well as
Arbroath and upland Tayside, could be accepted for Objective 5 B
classification.
''There has been a shift in influence since the last time. It used to
be the Commission which decided which were the 5 B areas. But this time
they are deciding on the global amounts for 5 B, the total amount that
will come to Britain and then Britain has got the discretion where it
goes.
''So Grampian's lobbying now has to be with the British Government,''
she said.
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