The President of the Committee of the Regions (CoR), Ramón Luis Valcárcel, intervened at the informal meeting of the Ministers responsible for Cohesion Policy held on 6 November in Nicosia.
The meeting was promoted by the Cyprus Presidency of the EU Council to discuss the progress in the negotiations on the cohesion policy reform. It involved all relevant stakeholders, including the EU Regional Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn, the Chair of the European Parliament Committee for Regional Development, Danuta Hübner, the President of the CoR and the President of the European Social and Social Committee, Staffan Nilsson, as well as representatives of the European Investment Bank.
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