Segnalazione dalla Alleanza per la Coesione

Dear Cohesion Alliance partners,

The current COVID-19 crisis has shown that solidarity, responsibility and cohesion are needed now more than ever to ensure that no one and no region is left behind.

As the emergency risks further deepening disparities between and within Member States, the absence of coordinated and timely EU action would increase the gaps between more and less developed communities. The joint ambition is to ensure that the EU 2021-2027 budget and the post-pandemic recovery plan provide additional financial EU support to protect citizens, support local economies and make local communities resilient to future crises. To this end, strong cohesion policy is needed more than ever and cohesion must be a key objective for all EU policies and investments.

This year's Europe Day on the 9th of May, the #CohesionAlliance partner organisations put forward a proposal for a renewed Declaration in view of the proposal and further adoption of the EU's Recovery Strategy and of the Multiannual Financial Framework beyond 2020. Please find here the declaration in all languages.

The objective is to shape an inclusive new Declaration together along with all stakeholders and institutions at European, national, regional and local level, including governments, businesses and civil society. Since you are already a signatory of the #CohesionAlliance, we would like to invite you to send in your comments via e-mail (cohesionalliance@cor.europa.eu) by 30 May 2020. A final version of the Declaration will be adjusted after the European Commission presents the revised MFF 2021-2027 and the EU Recovery Fund proposal and it will launched by the partners of the #CohesionAlliance before the next European Council takes place in June later this year.

We look forward to continuing our cooperation, and our shared commitment to ensuring Europe's response to the pandemic meets the need of our citizens.

Best regards

#CohesionAlliance