Budget de l’UE et politiques territorialisées: propositions de nouveaux mécanismes de conception et de mise en œuvre dans le CFP après2027

- agrees that the building blocks of the new MFF should be based on a clear definition of EU objectives and policy goals and on the principles of better law-making, active subsidiarity, partnership and multilevel governance;

- believes that Territorial Impact Assessments (TIAs) are the best available way to implement the ‘do no harm to cohesion’ principle;

- highlights that the EU’s main competitors have recently adopted large scale place-based policies and that a place-based approach should be taken for all relevant funds, including those supporting the Union’s industrial competitiveness;

- believes that cohesion policy alone cannot deliver territorial cohesion and that the entire EU budget should strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion;

- proposes that the principles of the European Partnership Pact be applied across all funds with a territorial dimension, eliminating gaps, overlaps and inconsistencies between the priorities and eligible activities of the various multiannual programmes; argues that before creating a new EU territorial development instrument, the European Commission should carry out a necessity check:

- is vehemently opposed to the increasing centralisation of EU funding programmes, even those under shared management such as cohesion policy and the common agricultural policy;

- considers that there is ample space to create synergies and consolidate the MFF with fewer, more multifunctional funds when there are demonstrable synergies and overlaps, with a single set of rules for each type of management;

- proposes that a much bigger emergency fund and general flexibility reserve package needs to be built into the MFF structure from the outset;

- proposes that competent local and regional authorities be explicitly recognised in the Financial Regulation.