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1 Amendments of Marc JOULAUD related to 2016/2306(INI)

Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the potential of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which is designed to support high- risk investment projects, in boosting growth and employment; is concerned, however, about the enormous imbalance in use of the Fund between the EU15 (91% of funding) and the EU13 (9% of funding)underlines that the Commission has proposed providing more targeted local technical assistance in order to improve the geographical coverage of the EFSI across the EU; welcomes the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies between the EFSI and the ESI Funds; emphasises, however, that this should by no means undermine the role of Cohesion Policy as the main investment policy of the European Union;
2016/12/16
Committee: REGI