In Budapest on Friday 2 February, the Visegrad Group, Croatia and Romania signed a common declaration calling for an ambitious post-2020 Cohesion Policy with a sufficient budget, focussing on shared management, simplification and flexibility.
There are a raft of proposals. The signatory member states say they are prepared to consider a rise in the next EU budget above the level of 1% of European gross national income (GNI).
This would align with the European Commission’s proposal, which...