In her own initiative report, "Building blocks of a future EU cohesion policy after 2020", seen by EUROPE on Thursday 16 March, German Social Democrat MEP Kerstin Westphal demands that the new cohesion policy budget be “adequate” and not suffer as a result of “the consequences of Brexit”.
In her report, she warns of the risks to cohesion policy of the growing budgetary constraints faced by both the EU and the member states and of the fall-out from Brexit. She says that cohesion...