Regional Policy Commissioner Corina Crețu said at a conference organised by the Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR) in the European Parliament in Brussels that she does not want to introduce a single definition of the concept of “islands” or a separate fund for the islands as part of post-2020 cohesion policy.
Her reasons were the great diversity of islands and heavier administrative burden that would result.
“We are all aware of the wide spectrum of differences between...