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📊 A deep dive into exploring the potential impacts of EU enlargement on Cohesion Policy budget with this latest study by Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR). It contains a break down of the effects of statistical shifts, GDP caps, and more, shedding light on how Cohesion Policy funding may evolve in the face of enlargement. While enlargement could spike Cohesion Policy budget needs, the study suggests the current allocation formula can handle it. The study emphasizes the importance of aligning budget allocation mechanisms with emerging economic challenges and objectives. Overall, it highlights the need for a dynamic approach to CP funding that addresses present and future needs effectively. Read below 👇🏼 #CohesionPolicy #CRPMStudy

EU cohesion Policy post 2027: why and how to enhance flexibility @ Centre for European Policy Studies: The EU's recent crises and evolving geopolitical landscape have underscored the need to reevaluate the EU budget, particularly for crisis management and rising spending demands. With the upcoming Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) discussions likely to emphasize reallocating existing funds over expanding the EU budget, cohesion policy faces increased scrutiny. Adaptations made to cohesion policy in response to crises have jeopardized its core focus on long-term investment. Declining absorption rates and overlap with the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) have raised concerns about inefficient overspending. This policy panel looked into the future of EU cohesion policy, exploring options for enhancing flexibility. Can flexibility help cohesion policy meet EU future challenges? What options are available, and to achieve which objectives? How can these options be implemented? CEPS team presented key findings from its recent work, arguing that while flexibility in cohesion policy cannot solve all new EU challenges, it can help and should be explored.

🌍 **COHESION POLICY: Call for Comprehensive Reform** The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) adopted an emergency resolution on Thursday, April 18, calling for a comprehensive reform of cohesion policy after 2027. The aim is to accelerate the financial execution of this policy without compromising its fundamental principles. The CoR insists on maintaining cohesion policy as an essential pillar of the European Union's sustainable growth model and long-term decentralized investment policy within the post-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework. Furthermore, the CoR welcomes the introduction of a golden rule for co-financing within the reformed economic governance framework in 2024. This rule excludes co-financing from the calculation of net expenditure. This approach aims to ensure more efficient use of European Union funds while preserving the fundamental principles of cohesion policy. #CohesionPolicy #CoR #Reform #Investment #EuropeanUnion

What will be the place of Cohesion and Cohesion Policy in the next Multiannual Financial Framework? How can more strategic coherence across EU policies be achieved? Can the place-based approach of Cohesion Policy be retained and strengthened? What lessons from the RRF could improve the implementation of Cohesion Policy? Our annual #EoRPA review of the state-of-play of Cohesion Policy has just been published here https://bit.ly/3OykkHz The paper reviews the current state of implementation of both Cohesion Policy and RRF implementation in 2021-27 and charts the evolving political and policy debates on MFF reform and the position of Cohesion Policy, concluding with a discussion of the key challenges and questions facing the EU's future policy approach to Cohesion. Duarte Rodrigues Dr. Raphael L'Hoest Dr. Bastian Alm Petri Haapalainen Frans Verkaart Odd Godal Sjoerd van Dommelen Alba Fagnani Balázs Greinstetter Irenа Nikolova Edgars Sadris Neveselá Kateřina Valérie Lapenne Riccardo Crescenzi Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Joaquim Oliveira Martins Jan-Philipp Kramer (PhD) Martin Weber Peter Wostner Peter Berkowitz Nicola De Michelis Jorge Nunez Ferrer Thomas Wobben Francesco Molica Laura Polverari Rui Inácio Carla Leal Ruud van Raak Heidi Minner Johannes ROSSBACHER Markus Seidl Richard Broos Radomir Matczak Nuno Oliveira Romão Alison Hunter Nick Brookes Emil Evenhuis Zsolt Darvas European Policies Research Centre Ida Musialkowska

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If you want to talk about the future of Cohesion policy the report of the ZEW is a must read.

The long-awaited Draghi report is certainly impressive and financially ambitious. But what if the money (800 bn/yr) isn’t there? And what if it is there, but we can’t reform the EU to spend it more wisely? How to deal with the social consequences and the geography of EU discontent? Some thoughts in this new CEPS editorial. https://lnkd.in/ek5Qhcaj 

Great summary - Will be interesting to see how they consider potential adverse/cumulative impacts crossing provincial to Indigenous territories/jurisdictions, which is where feds would have to consider a federal designation - considering recent SCC case law re: C92 Quebec Reference on UNDA!

It‘s time to break new ground in European cohesion policy. In this little peace I wrote some lines on why this is important and on what could be ways forward. If the EU drifts further apart, it will not be able to overcome any of the grand challenges its future depends. Political decision markers should be aware of this when the negotiations on the new multiannual EU budget pick up speed.

A glimpse of EU cohesion policy's complex and varied governance across Member States from the perspective of funding programmes in the period 2014-2020. The chart shows the number of programmes, the share of multi-fund programmes over domestic allocations and the type of programmes (regional, national, both) by country. This diversity reflects, amongst other things, the different size of allocations, institutional settings, or funding strategies in each MS.