EWL joins civil society call to strengthen partnership principle in future cohesion policy-structural funds
[Brussels, 06 November 2012] Together with 42 civil society organisations, reflecting a diversity of stakeholders, the EWL lends its voice by calling on the Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission to strengthen the partnership principle in the future Cohesion Policy.
Worried that the partnership principle is being diluted, the joint letter calls for full stakeholder participation in the design, implementation and delivery of regional plans and national partnership contracts and that full stakeholder participation be part of the ex ante conditions under the future Cohesion Policy which is the framework for the Structural Funds.
