The Commissioner for Cohesion Policy, Elisa Ferreira, brought good news to the Committee of the Regions’ plenary session on Thursday 27 January, announcing that the implementation of the 2014-2020 cohesion programmes was progressing “well, given the circumstances”.
Thus, she announced that the European Commission had paid the equivalent of €253 billion, or 62% of the total funds provided. She added that these figures included the REACT-EU initiative, with €50.6 billion to...