In an address on the forthcoming multi-annual financial framework (MFF) before the members of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) on Friday 12 May, the Commissioner for the Budget, Günther Oettinger, floated the idea that the Commission's reports presented in the framework of the budgetary process of the 'European Semester' could also comprise a regional plank.
The Commissioner argues that socio-economic policy recommendations limited to the national level do not give a precise “picture”...