During a debate at the General Affairs Council in Luxembourg on Thursday 12 April, a broad consensus emerged among ministers on future cohesion policy covering all European regions, with emphasis on less developed regions.
During a press conference at the end of the Council, Tomislav Donchev, stated,"I think that we have almost full consensus that the cohesion policy has to cover all the regions in the EU, of course there is some important details, probably cohesion policy has to be focused...