On Tuesday, 25th January 2022, the President of the European Council of the Regions (CoR ) Apostoles Tzitzikostas, EU- Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Fereira and the Chair of the CoR Commission for Cohesion policy and EU-budget Nathalie Sarrabezolles signed a joint action plan for the cooperation of the Council with the EU-Commission on the field of the cohesion policy. According to the plan both institutions will unite their activities in order to ensure all EU-regions to the greatest extent possible 500 billions eur at cohesion investments. The basic aim is to support local and regional authorities in rational usage of cohesion funds from EU-structural funds and from national co-financing.. The joint action plan includes five priority areas of the cooperation between CoR and EU-Commission and defines strategical goals for the current 2021-2027 budget period. The five priorities include the support of the authorities at managing EU-funds, promotion of cohesions as a fundamental value for EU-policy, strengthening of synergies and omitting of overlapping among structural funds, strengthening of the cross border cooperation and the improvement of communications on the spot.
