The Committee of the Regions (CoR) voted almost unanimously during the evening of Thursday 11 May to adopt the report by Michael Schneider (EPP, Germany) which seeks to maintain the objectives and the budget of cohesion policy after 2020.
“You have to realise: we are in a situation where we have to defend cohesion policy because it is under attack, particularly in the face of budgetary pressure”, the rapporteur told EUROPE on Friday 12 May, referring, in particular, to the impact of...