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EuroFlash Issue 74. February 2002
Urban II Programme: European Union Contributes €10.6 million to Urban Regeneration in Belfast
The aim of the URBAN Community Initiative is the "economic and social regeneration of cities and of neighbourhoods in crisis in order to promote sustainable urban development". The second round of Urban II will cover the period 2000-2006, supporting 70 deprived urban areas across the EU.
Total funding from the EU will be €728.3 million and this will attract at least as much again in matched funding from both public and private sectors.
In Belfast the programme area covers parts of six electoral wards in Inner North Belfast (Ardoyne, St Annes, Waterworks, Duncairn, New Lodge and Crumlin), and a population of 30,385. North Belfast suffers from severe multiple deprivation, as well as from a patchwork of sectarian territory and increasing rates of violence and intimidation, which has outlasted the formal end to the conflict in Northern Ireland.
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