To help keep them afloat, # 22m of public money has been given to them to this year, while another # 277m will be injected over the next four years — figures that only emerged after Private Eye trawled through the obscure Official Journal of the European Union, which requires publication of such payments by member states. (politics.co.uk)
2004 / 17 / EC: Council Decision of 22 December 2003 amending Part V, point 1.4, of the Common Consular Instructions and Part I, point 4.1.2 of the Common Manual as regards inclusion of the requirement to be in possession of travel medical insurance as one of the supporting documents for the grant of a uniform entry visa Official Journal L 005, 09/01/2004 P. 0079 — 0080 (squaremouth.com)
The EU official journal said that this would start on Friday. (cnbc.com)