Municipalities’ use of EU cohesion funds in response to Covid-19

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Financial support from EU regional funds has been vital for keeping public services going in EU countries already before, but even more so with the Covid-19 crisis.

Municipalities are at the forefront of providing many of the very practical aspects of support to people, public services and enterprises most affected by the health, social, economic and logistic challenges.

Therefore, we have looked into reports and asked local representatives in several EU countries (France, Germany, Cyprus, Netherlands, Slovenia, Poland…):

How efficient and accessible are EU crisis measure like CRII+ and REACT-EU for municipalities? What lessons can be learned for EU policy, what recommendations can be given to Member States, regions and the local level? What are implications more broadly for EU regional cohesion policy?

Together with the European Policies Research Centre we will be launching the study “Municipalities’ use of EU cohesion policy funding in response to the Covid-19 crisis: Current experience and lessons for the future”.