In a discussion with this newsletter on the future of Cohesion Policy on Thursday 4 May, Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Creţu seemed to reject the idea of linking the Cohesion Policy with respect for the rule of law and promises to relocate migrants.
After authoritarian slippages in Poland and Hungary and other member states’ refusal to share the burden of migrants, the idea of linkage arose in recent months, even going as far as the College of European Commissioners, and generating...