On Wednesday 21 February, upstream of the informal meeting of European leaders on the EU's institutional and budgetary future (see related articles), Committee of the Regions President Karl-Heinz Lambertz, wrote to European Council President Donald Tusk, urging him to maintain the current budget for cohesion policy during the multiannual financial cycle post-2020. He nonetheless recognised the need for modernising the policy for closing the gap in socio-economic conditions.
“It is not...