More than €23 billion has been invested in the EU under the four funds (ERDF, ESF, Cohesion Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative) of the Cohesion Policy in the first half of 2020, according to the latest figures published by the European Commission on the Structural Funds and Investment Data Platform on Friday 4 September.
This represents a 5 percentage point increase in capital expenditure since the end of 2019. Therefore, a total of €204 billion (43%) of the €480 billion planned...