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The Position Paper of the Commission Services on the development of the Partnership Agreement and programmes in Spain for the period 2014-2020 sets out the key country specific challenges and proposes four complementary and mutually reinforcing funding priorities. The latter represent the priorities that the European Commission would like to co-finance in Spain in the next programming period. The document serves as framework for negotiation between Brussels and the Spanish authorities.

On 21 May, Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn reached an agreement with Spanish Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro in Madrid to accelerate payments for the closure of Cohesion Fund projects. This will release up to 939 million EUR which can be paid quicker to beneficiaries of environmental and transport projects, already completed. Furthermore the reprogramming of the current Cohesion Policy programmes was discussed in order to bring them in line with the Europe 2020 strategy on growth and jobs.

 Source: European Commission