To ensure that Europe’s rural areas continue to provide Europeans with food, homes, jobs and other services, the EU has developed a Rural toolkit. Thanks to this new tool, local authorities, regions, businesses, and individuals can more easily access information on the different EU funding opportunities and take advantage of EU initiatives to improve the quality of life in their territories.

Today, the European Commission has adopted two legal acts that will pave the way for Poland to access up to €137 billion in EU funding. These acts relate to the rule of law reforms that Poland has adopted and the more recent and immediate steps that it has taken to address the milestones to strengthen judicial independence.

A state-of-the-art laboratory complex dedicated to research on infections and immune responses has been inaugurated in Sofia on March 5, 2024. The Competence Center for Fundamental, Translational, and Clinical Research in Infections and Infectious Immunology unveiled its renovated facilities with an official ceremony, marking a significant milestone in the field.

Wednesday 28 February marked a significant milestone in Slovenia's Divača-Koper second track project, with the inauguration of the Vinjan viaduct.

As the largest EU economy, Germany has both greatly contributed and benefitted from the internal market and EU funds! In Germany, over the last two decades, EU CohesionPolicy has supported: 30,150 enterprises and 89,355 full time new jobs. (Read Commissioner Elisa Ferreira's complete thread)

Since 1994, EUR 1 730 million from CohesionPolicy support have helped companies in #Denmark become more innovative, competitive and resilient. This includes 12 750 companies supported since 2007, of which 4 300 are startups. (read Commissioner Elisa Ferreira complete X thread)

The public vote will remain open Until 27 March on the New European Bauhaus Prizes website where everyone can vote for their favourite project online.

The European Commission has approved an investment of €125 million from the Cohesion Fund for the construction of a section of the D1 motorway between Hubová and Ivachnová in Slovakia.

DG REGIO has just published an independent study on people’s access to a selection of basic needs - housing, drinking water and sanitation, electricity, cooling and heating and internet and telephone connectivity - in the outermost regions.