Minister Navracsics: Hungary has a good reputation in EU cohesion policy

Tibor Navracsics, the minister of public administration and regional development, highlighted Hungary’s achievements in the area of the EU’s cohesion policy with results achieved in social policy and regional development programmes, after participating in the 9th Cohesion Forum held in Brussels on Friday.

Cohesion policy for Hungary includes the elimination of social disparities, social and regional development to allow “a catching-up of people, social groups or underdeveloped regions”, he said at a panel discussion.

He pointed out Hungary’s example “in the good use of EU funds”, saying that this is why Hungary “would like to have a say in to the formulation of the community’s cohesion policy in the future”.

“We have firm ideas about the future of cohesion policy, which in general fall in line with the stance of the of other central and southern European countries,” he said.

Navracsics said he had held informal talks on the forum’s sidelines with the head of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy, who will visit Hungary next week to review development project implemented with EU funds.

He also held talks with Elisa Ferreira, European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms.

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