21/12/2015 (Agence Europe) - All ESF operational programmes adopted. On Monday 21 December, the European Commission announced it had adopted all the operational programmes for the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) for the 2014-2020 period. In figures, this translates into 187 programmes, €86.4 billion from the ESF, €3.2 billion from the YEI, and a further sum of €38.5 billion in co-financing from national funds. On Monday, the last programmes were...