The European Parliament increased the post-2020 envelope of the European Social Fund plus (ESF+) from €101 billion to €120 billion in current prices, when it voted (543 votes in favour, 81 against, 64 abstentions) on the draft report by Verónica Lope Fontagné (EPP, Spain) on Wednesday 16 January in plenary session in Strasbourg.
The day before, the rapporteur had recalled some of the major changes made in the parliamentary committee (see EUROPE 12152, 12151): - an increase to...