Czech and Slovak national delegations to the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) recently presented a joint opinion on the future of cohesion policy after 2020, in which they set out seven common principles and priorities for the next programming period:

- Cohesion policy should above all be a regional policy
- Grants should be the primary instrument of cohesion policy
- Cohesion policy should be exempted from the state aid rules
- Preventing multiple inspections and retroactivity of findings
- Flexibility in meeting objectives
- Support for public infrastructure

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