The President of the European Committee of the Regions, Vasco Alves Cordeiro, defended, on Friday 29 September in Murcia, a bold and transformative reform of cohesion policy to make it more agile, more transparent and more accessible to regions and cities.
He advocated the introduction of a European partnership pact to make cohesion policy simpler and more flexible (see EUROPE B13261A1).
“Cohesion policy is one of the major EU policies and it should remain so after the current funding...