On Wednesday, 10 July, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted a resolution rejecting the idea of converting cohesion policy into a mechanism similar to the ‘Recovery and Resilience Facility’ (RRF).
The EESC thus believes—as does the European Committee of the Regions (CoR)—that cohesion policy should not become a crisis management tool (see EUROPE B13433A15).
The EESC points out that the RRF ought to be aligned with future cohesion policy, which is based on a...