France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain presented to the EU Council on Monday 9 December a contribution aimed at using the EU budget to foster social convergence within the EU by introducing a new transversal conditionality in the Structural and Investment Funds.
In the debate on the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027, France asked for further progress on conditionality, by introducing social conditionality. “We need to link funding more closely to the...