Cohesion in Europe: Regions Take up the Challenge

Harmonising territorial development all over Europe...

Bringing the EU closer to citizens...

Enhancing regions’ ownership of EU 2020:

The European Union’s regional policy is at the heart of our continent’s identity!

Regions must have a say in the definition of cohesion policy and this conference marked a milestone in this process.

Organised under the aegis of the Belgian Presidency, this conference collected over 250 actors and experts involved in European cohesion policy. The high-level debate gave Regional representatives to share views on the main issues at stake, i.e. How to best link cohesion policy and Europe 2020, would it be a good idea to enlarge the scope of indicators for eligibility to EU funds and evaluation of the programmes, or the controversial EC proposals regarding the principle of conditionnality.