During her speech at the 7th cohesion Forum on Tuesday, 27 June, the Commissioner for Employment and Social Affair, Marianne Thyssen, said that the allocation of structural funds on the basis of per capita GDP alone was “not an adequate system”.
The Commissioner illustrated her idea with the example of the Brussels region, which had the fourth highest per capita GDP of all European regions but which had at the same time an unemployment level of 17%.
On this basis, the Commissioner would...