The EU Council and the European Parliament made little progress on the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund (ERDF and CF) regulation on Wednesday 28 October, with negotiations stalled on the gas issue and the issue of thematic concentrations.
In fact, this regulation played inversely to the Just Transition Fund (see EUROPE B12561A11): in this case, it was Parliament that wanted to remove all possibility of financing gas, whereas the EU Council would like to maintain...