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New chances in the EU |
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For Salzburg the first year of membership in the EU meant that the budget of the land was confronted with expenditure higher than originally expected. Nevertheless the Salzburg regional government managed not to incur any new indebtedness for the budgets of the years 2003 and 2004, the seventh time in succession. Stabilising domestic agriculture, modernising Salzburg’s economy, support for domestic labour policies as well as promoting cross-border cooperation in Salzburg profit in particular from the fact that the citizens of the land independently perceive the opportunities offered by the EU to be more or less un-bureaucratic. Several hundred students in Salzburg have already made use of the EU-ERASMUS programme and the opportunity it offers to study elsewhere in Europe; in Tamsweg a district heating plant was created with help from the THERMIE programme; in Radstadt a housing settlement was subsidised by the EU because it is especially concerned with saving energy, and several classes of schoolchildren from schools in Salzburg were supported by the EU in undertaking exchange projects with other schools from EU countries. |
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