COHESION POLICY AND THE COVID -19 PANDEMIC

Sorin Mihai Stanciu, Carmen Simona Dumitrescu, Raul Pașcalău

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Cohesion policy is one of the most important policy areas of the European Union. A number of measures have been adopted at EU level to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects in all sectors. Cohesion policy has been constituted as a working tool in this process, its contribution being materialized through legislative acts that have amended the rules for the programming period 2014-2020. The article looks at how the rules of cohesion policy have been adapted to give Member States greater flexibility in using the funds in response to the crisis situation caused by the COVID-19 virus.


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Policy; pandemic; European Union; flexibility

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