MEPs on the Committee on ‘Regional Policy’ (REGI), following a morning-long marathon vote on Tuesday 22 January, maintained macroeconomic conditions under the future Common Provisions Regulation (adopted by 25 votes to 1 with 9 abstentions), but not without making substantial amendments to the provisions laid down by the European Commission.
The maintenance of macroeconomic conditions should be stressed, as parliamentarians had hitherto been particularly hostile to this provision....