Brum set to become part of the Algarve.THE Government has defended plans for a new "Atlantic region", making Birmingham part of the Algarve. Ministers said there was no danger of Britain being "wiped off the map" under EU plans for a new regional structure. The plans include making Birmingham and the West Midlands West Midlands, former metropolitan county, central England. Created in the 1974 local government reorganization, the county embraced the Birmingham conurbation and comprised seven metropolitan districts: Walsall, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Sandwell, Birmingham, Solihull, part of an Atlantic region, including western France, northern Spain and parts of Portugal, including the Algarve. The East Midlands The East Midlands is one of the regions of England and consists of most of the eastern half of the traditional region of the Midlands. It consists of the combined area of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Rutland, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and most of Lincolnshire. would become part of a "North Sea region", including Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Norway. The new regions will be used by the EU to allocate To reserve a resource such as memory or disk. See memory allocation. funding, to encourage funding bids involving co-operation between different countries. But the Tories claim the scheme is a "conspiracy" in Brussels to break up national boundaries. |
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