Mayors and regional mayors protest in Brussels against the draft EU budget

Europe’s mayors and determination mayors are reacting powerfully to the EU fund plan presented by the Commission.

Local authorities representatives who are presently successful Brussels arsenic portion of the 23rd Cities and Regions Week (euregions week) symbolically demonstrated astatine noon connected Wednesday (15/10) extracurricular the European Parliament, asking not to beryllium sidelined, but chiefly expressing their anxiety astir the aboriginal of the Cohesion Fund (in Greece, this is what finances the NSRF).

Earlier, representatives of the Committee of the Regions (the 3rd European assemblage aft the Commission and the Parliament) had pointed retired that the provisions successful the draught fund rise precise superior concerns and questions.

As Vasco Alves Cordeiro, erstwhile Commission President, said, the draught grows retired of cities and regions nether the pretext that European funds tin beryllium amended allocated, and power implicit wherever they extremity up volition beryllium easier and much efficient.

Mr Cordeiro argued that the program being presented has a strong constituent of centralisation and volition exacerbate inequalities, and described arsenic wishful reasoning the evident safeguards to proceed the information of cities and regions successful EU programmes and funding.