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Summary report 2023 on the implementation of the European Structural and Investment Funds

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Date: 15 jan 2024

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Theme: Research and innnovation, Transport, Urban development, Evaluation, Business support, Energy, Environment

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The report shows steady progress in implementation with one year left for spending the 2014-2020 ESI Funds. It highlights in particular the wide range of investments under the instruments and their real impact on people, companies and regional authorities. It also shows the flexibility of the framework, which has been able to adapt, in order to provide solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine and, more recently, the energy crisis.

As one of the largest investment instruments under the EU budget, the ESI Funds support the territorial, economic and social cohesion of Europe’s regions, as well as their resilience and recovery from the crisis faced in the past years. They comprise of:

  • the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF);
  • the European Social Fund (ESF);
  • the Cohesion Fund (CF);
  • the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and
  • the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).