In her speech at the 9th Cohesion Forum, held on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 April in Brussels, the Commissioner for Cohesion, Elisa Ferreira, stressed the need to look to the future and see “how we can improve Cohesion Policy”.
She pointed out that many regions have lower levels of development, under 75% of the EU average. “There are still many imbalances, many regions with massive problems of development”, she stressed.
The data also shows that some of the countries and regions...