European Semester 2020: How Cohesion policy funds support Member States’ green reforms

The European Semester is about helping Member States to identify the reforms that are needed to ensure a thriving economy and sound finances. To execute these reforms, Member States may need to invest, and the EU funds - in particular the Cohesion Policy funds - can be of great support.

To ensure coherence between the European Commission’s economic policy guidance and the use of EU funds by Member States, the Commission in 2019 started to outline, for each Member State, which areas of investment could be supported by the EU Cohesion Policy funds to support the countries’ most needed reforms.