Germany is proposing an entirely new approach for the allocation of cohesion funds in the future. According to a Committee of the Regions (CoR) study seen by EUROPE on Thursday 1 June, this approach will abandon the three categories of regions currently in place.
According to the CoR study which compares the position adopted by the CoR for post-2020 cohesion policy (see EUROPE 11787) with a position presented on 11 May by the German government, the latter would encourage the scrapping of the...