At an informal ministerial meeting, in Malta on Friday 9 June, devoted exclusively to the future of cohesion policy, the member states once again stressed the need for the post-2020 cohesion policy to cover all regions while at the same time being differentiated.
The Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU, hosting its last informal meeting, presented a discussion paper, seen by EUROPE. Following the European Commission model for the future of Europe, it set out five scenarios for the...