Tag: cohesion funds

Hungary won access today (9 September) to €2 billion in frozen EU development funds after convincing Brussels its management of projects met European standards.

As EU leaders meet tomorrow (7 February) for a two-day summit to ink out a deal on the Union's long-term budget for 2014-2020, diplomats said it was “now or never” for them to agree. Indeed, the political calendar of countries like Germany would make it much more difficult to reach a compromise before the 2014 European elections. 

EXCLUSIVE / The differences between the initial proposal for the EU's long-term budget (2014-2020), made by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy last week, and the new version he gave to EU heads of state and government last night, reveal the impact of the bilateral “confessions” held yesterday.

The 22-23 November EU summit to debate the 2014-2020 budget will be preceded by  “confessionals” one day earlier, with the 27 heads of state informing European Council President Herman Van Rompuy privately of their 'red lines' on spending, EurActiv can reveal.

Romania has two months to react to a warning from the European Commission, which has identified serious problems in the country's anti-corruption procedures in the implementation of programmes in the field of transport, regional development and competitiveness, a spokesperson said today (26 October).

Leaders of the “Friends of Cohesion” group gathered in Bratislava on Friday (5 October) to discuss tactics ahead of the battle for the EU budget. Commission President José Manuel Barroso said the “Friends of Cohesion” should join the “Friends of Better Spending” in what he called “The Friends of Growth”. EurActiv Slovakia contributed to this article.

Twelve member states asked yesterday (24 April) for a halt to “unfair” cuts in cohesion funding, as EU foreign ministers on the same day launched negotiations over the EU's next multi-annual budget for 2014-2020.

On the occasion of the first visit of new Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev to Brussels, Commission President José Manuel Barroso outlined an initiative to fight youth unemployment, which is most likely to be adopted at Monday's EU summit on growth and jobs.

Policymakers in the EU institutions, national governments and regional authorities are fighting for control over Europe's future regional policy spending after the European Commission last week tabled budget plans for the post-2013 seven-year period.