The Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU unveiled, on Thursday 11 June, its Negotiating Box with figures for the EU’s post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF). This document is enough to satisfy the 15 or so eastern and southern member countries, including Italy, Spain and Poland, that are pushing to preserve Cohesion Policy(see EUROPE B13874A1). While the Cypriot ‘nego box’ suggests an overall reduction of around 2% compared with the initial proposal presented in...