At a public meeting at the Committee of the Regions on Thursday, 9 January, Elisa Ferreira, the new Commissioner for Regional Policy, confirmed that the Just Transition Fund (JTF) will have its own budget, with new money, but that this will be “combined” with co-financing from existing funds.
The Commissioner told MEPs, representatives of local and regional authorities, and a handful of journalists that “we have to face new challenges with extra money, which means that cohesion policy...