While the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU aims to obtain a partial general approach on the subject at the end of May, during the ‘Competitiveness’ Council (the subject remains linked to the Multiannual Financial Framework), on 30 March ten Member States sent their European partners a non-paper on the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF), calling on the co-legislators to make it a tool supporting high added value projects, “with clear and strong award criteria”.
In this...