Local and regional authorities “have not been sufficiently involved, or have not been involved at all, in the entire Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) implementation process”, regrets the Commission for Economic Policy (ECON) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), in a draft opinion adopted unanimously on Thursday 4 July.
The RRF “does not respect multilevel governance or the partnership principle, both of which apply to cohesion policy, thereby undermining the very...