Brussels, 08/04/2015 (Agence Europe) - In a policy paper published at the end of March, the Jacques Delors Institute criticises the triple whammy or 'triple penalty' that macroeconomic conditionality could impose on the regions of Europe.
Introduced in the recent Regulation on the European Structural Funds (ESF), this clause allows the European Commission to re-programme partnership agreements with countries and suspend related payments “where this is necessary to support the...