After several hours of discussion, the European Parliament and the German EU Council Presidency reached an agreement in the middle of the night from Tuesday 1 December to Wednesday 2 December on the so-called “umbrella” regulation on common provisions between the structural and investment funds; they converged to keep the macroeconomic conditions, albeit in a very reduced version.
As a reminder, macroeconomic conditions are a mechanism which makes the financing of cohesion policy...