Successes & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe

Ida Musiałkowska; Piotr Idczak; Oto Potluka

book: Successes & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe

Open Access Published by De Gruyter Open Poland 2020

Successes & Failures in EU Cohesion Policy: An Introduction to EU cohesion policy in Eastern, Central, and Southern Europe

Ida Musiałkowska , Piotr Idczak and Oto Potluka

https://doi.org/10.1515/9788395720451

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Regions in the EU’s Eastern and Southern peripheries tend to perform badly across many rankings from economic development, to quality of government, social justice and innovation potential, despite the fact that the vast majority of EU structural funding has been spent in these countries. However, these countries followed different development trajectories and reacted differently to the economic crisis. Some of them still struggle, others thrive, others, after years of structural transformation, are stuck in a middle-income trap.

Successes and failures as a result of EU cohesion implementation are a valuable source of feedback for future plans. Southern part of the EU, and Central and Eastern Europe provide an excellent opportunity to evaluate them, The whole implementation exercise is sometimes challenging to accomplish, as both the public and private sectors have low absorption capacity. In contrast, positive experiences also emerged. Regions in Central and Eastern European countries witnessed improvements in the form of change in GDP per capita, benchmarked against the EU average during the years 2008-2015, while Southern Europe improved similarly between 2000-2008.

In this volume, the authors cover a variety of aforementioned problems and experiences of either all member states, with special attention to peripheral countries, or to sectoral or regional problems in selected countries. The book begins with an overview of the issues of economic convergence and quality of life in all member states. It also addresses political aspects of EU cohesion policy, including involvement of civil society into this public policy, as well as relationships between cohesion policy support and EU identification. The final section discusses an important novelty in the framework of EU cohesion policy, namely the JESSICA initiative, that is, an instrument offering repayable and recyclable funding targeted at economically-viable and sustainable urban development projects.

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Authors are engaged in research on EU cohesion policy and represent several disciplines: economics, political and social sciences

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter I: Cohesion Policy: Convergence, Perception & Society
1 The Effectiveness of the European Union’s Cohesion Policy in the Years 2000-2015 Maciej Pietrzykowski Open Access Download PDF	11
2 Regional Variation in EU Identification in the Southern and Eastern Peripheries of Europe: Does Cohesion Policy Matter? Marcin Dąbrowski, Dominic Stead and Bardia Mashhoodi Open Access Download PDF	26
3 Quality of Life Convergence in the EU: Do Eastern and Southern European States Lag Behind? Panagiotis Liargovas and Stavroula Kratimenou Open Access Download PDF	45
4 Cohesion Policy or Politics? A Case on the Participation of Civil Society Oto Potluka Open Access Download PDF	68
Chapter II: Cohesion Policy Multidimensional View: Sectors, Country Case Studies & Financial Instruments
1 Subsidizing Foreign Investments Through EU Funds in the European Peripheries: The Case of the Automotive Sector in East-Central Europe Vera Šćepanović and Gergő Medve-Bálint Open Access Download PDF	93
2 The Hungarian Experience of Using Cohesion Policy Funds and Prospects Györgyi Nyikos and Gábor Soós Open Access Download PDF	119
3 Effects of EU-Funds on Territorial Cohesion - Public and Private Resources for Regional Development in the Least-Developed, Most Deprived Micro-Regions in Hungary Judit Kalman Open Access Download PDF	143
4 JESSICA Initiative to Support Sustainable Urban Development Projects in Poland Ida Musiałkowska and Piotr Idczak Open Access Download PDF	173

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Open Poland
Audience: Economists, geographers, social and political scientists, policy- and decision-makers engaged in EU cohesion policy matters
Pages
- Main content: 208
Keywords: EU regional and urban policy; cohesion policy; European Structural and Investment Funds; convergence; Eastern; Central; and Southern Europe

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Published: August 20, 2020
ISBN: 9788395720451

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Published: August 20, 2020
ISBN: 9788395720444