Slovenia was a net receiver in its second year of EU membership, getting SIT 4.53bn (EUR 18.9m) from the EU budget. Yet this was far below plans, which anticipated Slovenia having a SIT 42.76bn (EUR 178.47m) surplus from the EU in 2005, the Finance Ministry has said.
While the country contributed SIT 68.44bn (EUR 285.66m), it received SIT 72.97 (EUR 304.56m) from the Brussels purse, the ministry said on Friday.
However, according to the 2005 supplementary budget, Slovenia should get SIT 115.9bn (EUR 483.75m) from the EU, but poor phasing of structural and cohesion funds meant that it only managed to acquire 63% of the anticipated sum.
Slovenia got SIT 26.76bn (EUR 111.69m) from the Common Agricultural Policy, SIT 21.81bn (EUR 91.03m) in lump sum returns, SIT 8.6bn (EUR 35.89m) from structural funds and SIT 1.85bn (EUR 7.72m) from cohesion funds.
While agriculture managed to secure 98% of allocated funds, realisation of structural funds stood at 32.1% and of cohesion funds at 18.4%.
The country performed even worse in EU funds allocated for interior policy, acquiring only 8% of the allocated Schengen facility means.
Meanwhile, Slovenia also paid SIT 4.7bn (EUR 19.61m) less into the EU treasury than planned, the main reason being that the EU newcomers failed to realise their cohesion policy plans.
Slovenia therefore only managed to retain net recipient status because of lower-than-expected contributions to the EU budget.
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