23/03/2018 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 22 March, the European Commission in Portugal announced the forthcoming launch of a pilot project for the future structural reform implementation instrument (see EUROPE 11923). This tool was proposed by the Commission in December 2017 for the post-2020 budget. In order to test out this new mechanism, the Commission offered the member states the option to use some of the performance reserve in the current European structural and investment funds (ESI...