On Thursday, 7 March, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the European Commission erred in law by refusing to register the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Cohesion policy for the equality of regions and the preservation of regional cultures’ (Case C-420/16 P).
The objective of this citizens’ initiative is for EU cohesion policy to support regions with a national minority, i.e. geographical areas whose ethnic, cultural, religious, or linguistic...