SECTORAL POLICIES / Cohesion

Regions express concern at flexibility injected into European budget by Commission

Brussels, 13/10/2016 (Agence Europe)

During the debate on the challenges of the cohesion policy on Thursday 13 October, the peripheral maritime regions told European Commissioner for Regional Policy Corina Creţu of their concerns at some of the flexibility introduced in the framework of the ambitious mid-term review of the multi-annual financial framework (MFF).

The deputy president of the Conference of the Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR), Enrico Rossi, flagged up the possibility that cohesion funds may be transferred,...