Commissioner Hahn met the newly appointed Bulgarian Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and Public Works Ekatarina Zaharieva to discuss the management of EU funds in the current period and the future regional policy in Bulgaria as of 2014. The Commissioner welcomed the substantial progress made by the Bulgarian authorities on the acceleration of payments and in preparing the draft regional development programme for the next programming period.

Full press release available here. Source: Eurostat

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Source: www.mrr.gov.pl

The European Commission has recently released all Position Papers for the development of the 2014-2020 Partnership Agreement and programmes in each Member States. All 28 documents (27 Member States + Croatia) are available here. The Position Papers are based on the lessons learnt during the 2007-2013 period and were presented to each Member States as the Commission Services' views, without prejudice to the final outcome of the negotiations on the legislative package on the future Cohesion Policy.