Source: European Parliament
There is still no proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework. The current legislation requires the Commission to make such a proposal only in mid-2025.
In her political guidelines, the President of the Commission, put forward ‘a plan for each country linking key reforms with investment, and focusing on our joint priorities, including promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion’[1].
At the same time the President also stressed in these guidelines that the European Union needs a ‘strengthened cohesion and growth policy with regions at its centre’, and that cohesion policy needs to be designed ‘in partnership with national, regional, and local authorities’.
The Commission’s Communication on the ninth Cohesion Report adopted on 27 March 2024[2] already emphasised that any future change to Cohesion Policy or any new delivery model needs to be aligned with the Treaty objective of economic, social and territorial cohesion, including the importance of its place-based dimension, partnership principle, as well as regions as core of its multi-level governance.