At a bilateral meeting with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday 5 July, the President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Vasco Alves Cordeiro, voiced his concerns about the future of cohesion policy.
Speaking to the press, Mr Cordeiro criticised “a tendency to diminish the role and importance of cohesion policy in achieving the EU’s major objectives” (see EUROPE B13208A12).
The CoR president is concerned about the idea that...