The European Commission’s director-general for regional and urban policy, Marc Lemaître, although not very satisfied with the situation, was reassuring about the real consequences of the slow implementation of the EU’s post-2020 cohesion policy, during an exchange with the European Parliament’s Regional Development Committee (REGI) on Monday 15 November. However, he was much more concerned about the situation of the Just Transition Fund.
The European official was less alarmist than...