Brussels, 15/12/2014 (Agence Europe) - A fifth of the operational programmes member states submitted for the European Commission's approval have been endorsed, 46 programmes out of 203. This endorsement will help obtain funding for the 2014-2020 period, mainly from Cohesion Funds but also, to a lesser extent, from the European Social Fund.
This pace is being speeded up so that a maximum of programmes can still receive the Commission's approval this year and that payments can be made on the...