The President of the Sardinia Region Alessandra Todde will lead the Italian delegation in the meeting between the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Raffaele Fitto, and the European Regions. The face-to-face meeting is scheduled for today, Wednesday 2 July.
The delegation of 30 regional presidents and ministers will meet Fitto, in the Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, representing 149 European regions adhering to the EURegions4cohesion initiative to protect Cohesion Policy, the main long-term investment policy that contributes to strengthening European competitiveness, strategic autonomy, the green and digital transition and reducing territorial disparities. The meeting will be attended by regional political representatives from Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The delegation of our country, as mentioned, will be represented by Alessandra Todde, who will speak on behalf of all the Italian Regions.
The meeting is part of a process initiated by the European Regions at European level in 2024 in defense of regional interests, in view of the reform of the Cohesion Policy after 2027, and of the next Multiannual Financial Framework that will define its financial endowment and regulatory structure, whose presentation by the Commission is scheduled for next July 16.
«The regional coordination – it is explained – sent a joint letter last week to the President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen to ask for a specific regulation for the Cohesion Policy, without this being part of a broader regulation relating to the set of European funding that would undermine its territorial vocation, and the maintenance of the regional dimension in future regulatory structures, both in the financial allocations and in the programming and management functions of resources, avoiding a substantial centralization of resources by central governments that would call into question the strengths and specificities of the territories».
