Elisa Ferreira

National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and his deputy Nikos Papathanasis received European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira for a meeting in Athens on Thursday.

During the meeting, an overview of the progress of projects implemented under the National Strategic Reference Framework 2014-2020 (NSRF 2014-2020) was provided.

More than 250 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) will finance the first stage of high-voltage electricity infrastructure between the island of Crete and the Attica region, the European Commission announced on Thursday. 

Deputy Foreign Minister Mehmet Kemal Bozay and EU Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira signed the official authorization agreement for a 400 million euro aid package to be provided to Türkiye through the EU Solidarity Fund for the region affected by the Feb. 6 earthquakes last year.

The European Commission has approved an advance payment of 25.3 million euros to Greece "to ease the financial burden of reconstruction efforts" following Storm Daniel in September 2023.

The payment is being made under the Commission's European Solidarity Fund (EUSF).

The European Commission wants to assist the Greek authorities in the official investigation into the causes of the Tempe railway disaster and in coming up with a railways framework that will be safer and more attractive to citizens, a government minister has said.

The Government of Bulgaria has informed the European Commission that it is not interested in the implementation of the Just Transition Plan this year. This was said in Brussels by the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira.

Slovenia’s western cohesion region approved on Friday the programme of the European Cohesion Policy in 2021-2027, meaning the document has now been green-lit by all relevant stakeholders in Slovenia and will soon be sent to Brussels, said Minister for European Cohesion Policy Aleksander Jevšek.

Labour Minister Raluca Turcan in Brussels on Tuesday discussed with European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira the issue of vulnerable people and the improvement of social services in Romania.

With modification of three operational programmes under REACT-EU, the Commission has approved to provide extra €75.9m to Bulgaria and €57.5m to Sweden to help tackle the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Brussels – The health minister expects that the EU will have enough Covid-19 vaccine in the coming months to fight off the pandemic, and that a digital green certificate will also play an important role. Its first version could be available in Slovenia in June, allowing residents to travel abroad over the summer, he said on Wednesday.