Slovenia received EUR 59.37m from four cohesion funds in 2005, according to data published by the European Commission on Thursday.
Out of the total sum, Slovenia received half from the regional development fund (EUR 29.86m), followed by the European Social Fund (EUR 10.1m), with minor amounts also granted through the agriculture structural reform and fishing funds.
The country also received EUR 17.69 from the cohesion fund, the Commission said.
At the end of 2005, new EU member states were reimbursed expenses similar to the ones paid to old member states at the end of 2001, said the EU Regional Policy Commissioner upon presenting the data.
Danuta Huebner added that the Commission has on average "re-paid 20% of all cohesion funds to the new members for the 2004-2006 period".
Huebner assessed the absorption capacity of new EU members as positive overall, although she did not provide any additional data.
She also expressed satisfaction with a "record" year, as structural funds, cohesion fund and pre-accession programmes dished out a total of EUR 33.1bn.
The EU's 2007-2013 financial perspectives meanwhile allocate EUR 307bn for 25 EU members and 2 acceeding countries, down 10% from Commission's original plans, the Commissioner added.
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