Today’s #SOTEU set out Europe’s priorities for the year ahead.
#CohesionPolicy is adapting too: €34.6bn redirected towards competitiveness, defense, housing, water and energy security.
➡️Investing where it matters for Europe’s regions.
More details: https://t.co/xhu56khBsV
Executive Vice-President of the @EU_Commission@RaffaeleFitto visited the 🇨🇾Troodos Observatory in Agridia this afternoon.
The #Troodos Observatory is part of an EU-funded project to boost scientific tourism, education, and local economic regeneration.
#NextGenerationEU
In Nicosia with EVP @RaffaeleFitto for the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Cohesion
The future of #CohesionPolicy means stronger support for territories, from islands to rural regions, helping people build their future where they choose to live through the Right to Stay strategy
Cohesion never tasted so sweet!
Local pride, local flavour, local impact — celebrating the inauguration of EU-funded project in the heart of @NicosiaMunicipa the proper Cypriot way, with loukoumades 🇨🇾🇪🇺
Great to mark the moment with Minister Makis Keravnos
@MoF_Cyprus
Inaugurating today the Creative Industries District regeneration project in Nicosia 🇨🇾
w/ Ministers Keravnos, @K_Ioannou, Mayor @Prountzos
Supported w/ €3M, it shows how #EUCohesionPolicy delivers results:
accessible spaces, urban renewal & opportunities for local communities
Help us design an #EUIslandsStrategy that keeps islands vibrant, competitive & full of opportunity.
We have launched a Call for Evidence 🗓
Share your views by 1 April 2026
👉 “Have Your Say” portal
https://t.co/zOcoAYzgPQ
We’re excited to be in Gdańsk 🇵🇱for a new #INFORMEU edition focused on communicating with projects: sharing ideas, learning from real examples, and bringing #EUFunds stories closer to people.
Let’s connect, collaborate, and get inspired!
Discover Guadeloupe’s hidden biodiversity 🐚
120 researchers & 110+ local partners explored the southern islands, through the Our Planet Reviewed programme, co-funded by the #ERDF, protecting unique and under-studied ecosystems. 🔍
🔗 https://t.co/beSjdAHpcy
Tomorrow, EVP @RaffaeleFitto will host the High-Level Forum of the Outermost Regions in Brussels.
The focus? Boosting resilience, competitiveness & the unique assets of these regions.
Insights will feed into the new strategy for #OutermostRegions.
🔗 https://t.co/KJ7nyDigVF
🆕 For you, media, universities, agencies, organisations:
📣 Tell the story of Cohesion Policy
Our budget: 3.5 million €
⏳ Apply for funding
before 15 Jan 2026
https://t.co/84ZwQPnfvI
New faces, new energy, new ideas!
✨A big welcome to our new REGIO trainees
They come from #regions and #cities all over Europe —
bringing unique experiences and fresh eyes to learn and help shape #CohesionPolicy during the next 5 months
Congratulations to the amazing #REGIO team for running in full force at the #Ekiden Relay Marathon — with the highest number of teams participating! 🏃♀️🏃🏽💪
Very proud of your team spirit and dedication
Heureuse d’avoir ouvert à #Mons le vernissage de l’expo David Hockney –Le Chant de la Terre
Grâce à la politique de cohésion, la culture rayonne au-delà des frontières, créant attractivité & fierté locale
Une belle preuve que 🇪🇺 rend l’art vivant pour toutes/tous
Cohesion delivers!
1.6 billion EUR to Spain,
the second largest disbursement in the history of the #EUSolidarity Fund,
for reconstruction of the Valencian community after the floods
Europe at its best 🇪🇺
@RaffaeleFitto@vonderleyen
🤝@EuroParl_en & @eu2025dk teams have reached an agreement on new priorities & flexibilities for the current cycle of EU cohesion funding.
❗️New priorities include defence industrial capacity, housing, water, energy transition, key technologies
📄: https://t.co/cmwQ21eg5d
Our Director-General at DG REGIO, @ChristophidouEU , officially opened the #CitiesForum 2025 today.
"Cities are where the future is written. Where the bold ideas are born."
#CohesionPolicy
With the 2️⃣7️⃣ Ministers
in Brussels today:
For "a more dynamic and strategic cohesion policy: delivering change in the current and next perspective"
#CohesionPolicy
with @RaffaeleFitto and
@POLAND25EU