On Tuesday 14 November in Strasbourg, MEPs adopted (506 votes for, 103 against, 77 abstentions) an own-initiative report presented by Iratxe García Pérez (S&D, Spain), in which they call for better use of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI), as a means of tackling demographic change and the depopulating of certain regions.
Ahead of the vote, during a debate on the text, Ms García Pérez stated, “80% of the European population lives on 20% of Europe’s surface area. This...