Structural Funds should be simplified

In conclusions adopted at the General Affairs Council on 23 June, the member states reminded the European Commission of the extent to which they want EU cohesion policy to be simplified in future. In order to achieve this, they are counting on the brand new ‘high-level group’ on simplification, announced by the Commission at the beginning of the month, whose first conclusions will be discussed in 2016. These conclusions can therefore be applied to the 2014-2020 programming period "where it…