The nine UlTrapheric Regions of the European Union, who held their 29th Conference of Presidents on April 7 and 8 in Reunion, are worried about the means that will be allocated to them during the next community programs, After 2027.
The five French overseas departments, Saint-Martin, Azores and Madeira (Portugal) and the Canaries (Spain) have signed a joint declaration, April 7, signaling "the risk of a European budgetary weakening which would compromise an already unfinished catch -up". If the oldest of the RUPs have benefited for thirty years from community policy, They still have a long way to make to catch up with the average level of the continental regions of the European Union. This is even more true for Mayotte, which acceded to the status of Ultraperipheric Region in 2014 only.
