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    Warning of greater EU scrutiny of peace funds for ex-prisoner groups post 9/11

    by David Young Dec 28, 2023 2 minutes
    Source: PA Archive

    Civil servants were warned that the allocation of EU funds to ex-prisoner groups in Northern Ireland was to come under intensified scrutiny from Brussels in the wake of 9/11.

    Officials were told of inevitably heightened sensitivities within the on how its Peace Programme funding initiative would be portrayed internationally, after the terror attack on the US, according to a newly released archive document from the Public Records Office

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