At a press conference on Monday 7 October, the President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), Vasco Cordeiro, said that it was “inconceivable” that the EU budget would be centralised in future, leaving out the towns and municipalities, which are “responsible for around 50% of public investment”.
At the 22nd European Week of Regions and Cities, the CoR President rejected an idea contained in an internal European Commission document to create “a single programme at...