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Conference on EU Structural Funds and housing in Eastern Europe |
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Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung together with the International Union of Tenants (IUT) organized the expert roundtable “Decent housing for a Social Europe-Could European structural funds be the answer for the Eastern European housing sector?” on the 15th of April.
Key speakers of this roundtable were Siebenkotten (Director of the German Union of Tenants), Libor Roucek (member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament), Milan Taraba (Vice President of the Czech Union of Tenants), Katarina Mathernova (Deputy Director of the Directorate A1 in the DG for Regional Policy of the European Commission) and Daniela Grabmullerova (Director of the European Affairs Department and Ministry for Regional Development of the Czech Republic). It emerged from this discussion that the opening of the ERDF offers a great chance in order to make the Eastern European building stock more energy-efficient. However there are some critical points as well, as the fact that the funds made available are not sufficient and should be combined with other financial instruments such as banking loans, or that in many member states a lack of capacity to call for funds exists, or that a widespread corruption in some member states might impede that the funds reach the right addressees.
>For further information on the event, visit http://www.fes-europe.eu/
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