Corina Creţu, Commissioner for Regional Policy
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date: 06/07/2017
“It is time we give the EU budget a makeover. Let's make it simpler, more flexible and let's reflect, with ambition and imagination, on how we can make it a powerful tool that will help us grow faster, ever closer, and leave no one behind in this globalised economy.”