Policy focus 21 January 2019 MFF 2021-2027: Winners and losers across the EU from a social policy perspective By Niccolo Donati This article is the first part of a focus on the financial resources destined for cohesion policy within the MFF. We are going to discuss how geographical eligibility changed in the Commission’s proposal when compared with the previous MFF (2014–2020). Moreover, we are going to focus on the resources that are going to be allocated to social Europe with the new ESF+.
Policy focus 2 October 2017 Cohesion policy: the political conditionality saga By Niccolo Donati Since 1988, cohesion policy has contributed to give visibility to the EU. “No one falls in love with a market”, was Jacques Delors’s frequent admonishment in the late eighties. His fear was that, if Europe was only to be a free trade area, the average citizen would perceive its construction as elitist
