MEPs held a lively first debate on the proposed Brexit adjustment reserve in the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development (REGI) on Tuesday 16 March. There were many points of convergence, but the distribution key for the funds revealed a French-led, cross-party front in the committee.
The European Commission has proposed a particularly high rate of pre-financing (80% of the planned €5.3 billion at 2018 prices), which is calculated on a factor related to fish caught in...