REGIOFLASH: latest news on Regional and Urban Policy

A study published this July found that lending in support of EU cohesion policy by the European Investment Bank Group (EIB Group) helped contain the economic fallout from the pandemic and could now help counter some of the short-term fallout from the war in Ukraine.

Slovenia will benefit from €3.26 billion in Cohesion Policy funding between 2021-2027 to support the sustainable development of its economy. The details and strategy for these investments are set out in the Partnership Agreement between Slovenia and the Commission that was adopted today.

The Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have signed an agreement on the Public Sector Loan Facility, the third pillar of the Just Transition Mechanism (JTM), to pave the way for public sector entities in the EU territories and regions that need most support in Europe’s transition to a climate-neutral economy to benefit from €1.5 billion grants from the Commission and €10 billion of EIB loans.

Thanks to the adoption of three Interreg transnational programmes, the Commission will invest €467 million from European Regional Development Fund in the 2021-2027 programming period for cooperation actions in the North West Europe, Atlantic and Arctic area – especially, in the field of environment and resilience against climate change.

The Commission has approved a contribution of more than €65 million from the 2014-2020 Cohesion Fund for a better water and wastewater infrastructure in the Medias, Agnita and Dumbraveni regions, in Sibiu County, Romania.

The 20th edition of EURegionsWeek under the motto New Challenges for Europe’s cohesion is ready to take off.

Call for Cities, Member States, Partner States, Regions, city consortiums, national city umbrella organisations, and other stakeholders to form two new Thematic Partnerships under the Urban Agenda for the EU (UAEU): Sustainable Tourism and Greening Cities

A review of the cross-programme collaboration between EU cooperation programmes in the Arctic covering the period 2016-2021