The Committee of the Regions and the European Parliament call for the embedding of MRS in the Cohesion policy post 2020

18th Dec 2017

One year after the “Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions on the implementation of EU macro-regional strategies – COM(2016) 805 final)", there is a clear growing interest in the implementation of macro-regional strategies.

In the Plenary session of December 1 the Committee of Regions approved the opinion “The implementation of macro-regional strategies” unanimously – rapporteur Raffaele Cattaneo (EPP)
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The week before, the REGI Committee of the European Parliament approved a report on the implementation of EU macro-regional strategies (2017/2040(INI)) - rapporteur Andrea Cozzolino (S&D).
This report will be definitively approved inthe Plenary session of the Parliament in Strasbourg on January 2018.

Please find the document discussed in the REGI Committee and a preparatory study of the EP.
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