{"id":269870,"date":"2025-07-17T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269870\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:26:10","slug":"youre-on-your-own-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269870\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re on your own \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, Regions and Cohesion Commissioner Raffaele Fitto attempted to defend the proposal during a hearing in the European Parliament on Thursday, leading lawmakers to accuse him of  \u201cselling off\u201d Europe\u2019s regions. \u201cI think [cohesion policy] is not dead, we\u2019re in a different phase,\u201d he said, highlighting the \u20ac218 billion committed to development in the bloc\u2019s poorest regions.<\/p>\n<p>Hinting at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/raffaele-fittto-eu-budget-ursula-von-der-leyen-trilion-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his own dissatisfaction<\/a> with the proposal, Fitto added he was hopeful the Parliament and the European Council would \u201cfurther improve the text\u201d in the negotiations to be held over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Safeguard concerns<\/p>\n<p>For local leaders, there\u2019s also the additional worry over the Commission\u2019s plan to link national governments\u2019 ability to access EU cash with their implementation of major reforms or their adherence to the rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, cohesion funds still flowed to cities and regions in countries with central governments that clashed with Brussels. But under the new terms, problems that national administrations have with the Commission could stymie cities\u2019 ability to secure EU money for building tram lines or sustainable housing.<\/p>\n<p>In Poland, where the central government\u2019s access to EU cash was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-rule-of-law-funding-european-commission-court-of-justice-poland-hungary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">temporarily blocked<\/a> due to concerns over the independence of the judiciary, Wroc\u0142aw\u2019s Deputy Mayor Jakub Mazur expressed deep concerns over tying access to funds with national leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen national governments fail to meet horizontal conditionalities such as the Rule of Law,\u201d he argued, \u201clocal efforts might be put at risk by political changes at the national level, despite cities\u2019 commitment to delivering on EU priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, Regions and Cohesion Commissioner Raffaele Fitto attempted to defend the proposal during a hearing in the European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[1194,5719,2000,12921,7335,6562,299,5187,23015,6084,18110,25809,5111,52252,46,6565,2822,7338,1220,1781],"class_list":{"0":"post-269870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-eu-budget","12":"tag-eu-commission","13":"tag-eu27","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-gergely-karacsony","17":"tag-infrastructure","18":"tag-living-cities","19":"tag-mayors","20":"tag-parliament","21":"tag-piotr-serafin","22":"tag-policy","23":"tag-populism","24":"tag-regions-cohesion","25":"tag-rule-of-law","26":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","27":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114869749875229337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}