The Director General of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), Marc Lemaître, deplored the delay in the implementation of the Structural and Investment Funds for the period 2014-2020, during his first speech to MEPs of the newly formed Committee on Regional Development (REGI) on Tuesday 3 September.
"In terms of concrete implementation of the policy, we are nearly at the end of the sixth year of this financial framework, and we have not yet...