Competitiveness depends on digital skills & firms’ capacity to innovate, but it also requires
✅basic infrastructure
✅public institutions providing a stable business environment
✅quality public services
This is why 🇪🇺 #CohesionPolicy supports investments in all these areas.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ElisaFerreiraEC/status/1640338141637689344
#Cohesion funds also support 🇪🇺 regions to get out of:
☑️talent development trap due to brain drain
☑️middle-income trap preventing convergence
☑️innovation trap jeopardizing capacity to innovate
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ElisaFerreiraEC/status/1640338146083651588
In 2014-2020 #Cohesion funds supported:
📌modernisation of 2 million firms ➡️310,000 jobs
📌construction of 172 km of trams & metros
📌connection of 6.3 million households to broadband
📌30,000 enterprises to bring new products to the market
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ElisaFerreiraEC/status/1640338143910981635