21/12/2012 (Agence Europe) - Cross-border cooperation. The President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, has received a letter from the cross-border liaison group set up by the MEPs Marie-Thérèse Sanchez-Schmid (EPP, France) and Gilles Pargneaux (S&D, France), stressing the importance of keeping in place a budget to fund cross-border cooperation. The European Parliament would like 7% of the cohesion policy to be allocated to this, whereas the Commission has proposed just 3.5% and...