05/07/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Union sociale pour l'habitat (USH) warmly welcomed the Commission's budgetary proposals, and mainly the targeting of a large part of the cohesion policy budget on energy challenges. The Commission's approach is an appropriate approach for encouraging public authorities and project developers to invest in energy efficiency of public buildings and social housing under cohesion policy, said Laurent Ghekiere, who heads the European USH office. He goes on to point...