Some 188 regions (NUTS 2) of the European Union signed a statement on the occasion of the summit of the regions on Wednesday 28 September calling for a “strong renewed” European regional policy post-2020.
The goal of this initiative is to highlight the benefits of regional and cohesion policies at the start of the negotiations on the future of cohesion policy which are due to be concluded by 2018 – a very thorny issue, as Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu acknowledged (see...