Tens of billions of euro in cohesion policy funding could be used after 2020 to assist the countries that have been victims of the financial crisis, such as Spain and Greece, rather than the countries of Central Europe, such as Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, the Financial Times reported on Monday 23 April (see EUROPE 12006).
According to the British daily, which took as its basis the preparatory documents ahead of the presentation of the European Commission’s proposals on 2 May,...