The European Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Crețu, and the President of the Committee of the Regions, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, reiterated their calls for the multiannual financial framework (MFF) of the EU 2021-2017 to lay emphasis on solidarity, which they feel is the only alternative to a rise in euroscepticism, at the annual ‘State of the Union’ conference at the European University Institute of Florence, on Friday 11 May.
This exchange of observations, which was also...