The report shows steady progress in implementation with one year left for spending the 2014-2020 ESI Funds. It highlights in particular the wide range of investments under the instruments and their real impact on people, companies and regional authorities. It also shows the flexibility of the framework, which has been able to adapt, in order to provide solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine and, more recently, the energy crisis.
As one of the largest investment instruments under the EU budget, the ESI Funds support the territorial, economic and social cohesion of Europe’s regions, as well as their resilience and recovery from the crisis faced in the past years. They comprise of:
- the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF);
- the European Social Fund (ESF);
- the Cohesion Fund (CF);
- the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and
- the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
Annexes
- Factsheet: The European Structural and Investment Funds - 5 million businesses supported en
- Synthesis of the findings of the evaluations of European Structural and Investment Funds Programmes en
- Annexes du rapport de la commission au parlement européen, au conseil, au comité économique et social européen et au comité des régions fr
- Anhänge des berichts der kommission an das europäische parlament, den rat, den europäischen wirtschafts- und sozialausschuss und den ausschuss der regionen de
- Annexes to the report from the commission to the european parliament, the council, the european economic and social committee and the committee of the regions en