Bruselas intentará que las regiones can duplicate the investment in affordable housing

Brussels, Dec 12 (EFECOM).- The vice-president of the European Commission for Cohesion and Reforms, Raffaele Fitto, assured that it is true that one of the institution’s priorities is to ensure that European regions can duplicate the investments they have expected for housing. attainable”.

This is how he expressed himself in his first appearance as a new head of regional policy of the Community Executive before the competent commissions of both the European Parliament and the Committee of the Regions in an event dedicated to the future of cohesion policy.

Fitto detached the priorities for regional policy from Brussels and the first of them will be “guaranteeing that every European has access to opportunities for a bright future regardless of where they live”.

“The freedom to stay depends on the fact that it was good to stay and be employed, quality, affordable housing, training, other quality public services, education and health and transport,” he defended .

The European vice-president recorded that the hundred, Ursula von der Leyen, was involved in “liquid injection in the sector of vivienda” and added that the cohesion policy “contribuirá a ell facilitando que los Estados membri dupliquen la planned investments in affordable housing” . “.

He also states that he supports the application of the new rules in the matter of regional funds, once approved, it will allow him to redirect part of them and to know the consequences of natural disasters like la dana in España.

In this line, el italiano defended that “Cohesion Policy must be strengthened and modernized” now, that “it wants to do much more than ever” not only to reduce the “disparities” between regions, but also to support block priorities. las transiciones green and digital, to security and defense or to economic competitiveness.

“Cohesion policy must maintain a central role in the next EU budget in the long term and be adequately funded,” he said.

Thus, I emphasize that this European policy has that “evolutionary” and a se mostró partidario de that your reforma advance in su simplificación, the reduce of the administrative load and the increase of the flexibility in the use of the funds for power reactionary in cases of “unexpected crisis”.

Lastly, the European Vice-President for Cohesion and Reforms claimed the “crucial role” that regional and local authorities will have in designing the future European regional policy.

“We all agree that each region has a specific context and different investment needs. Thus, regional and local participation is key for effective development,” he explains. EFECOM