The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU will highlight the specificity of the outermost regions (ORs) within the framework of cohesion policy, according to its work programme.
It points out that the ORs have unique specificities recognised in the European treaties (Articles 349 TFEU) in that they give the EU territory a “strategic” maritime asset. Thus, for the Presidency, it is important to work on the definition of the international governance of the oceans to take into...