Publication: September 2020 Download: English Executive summary: ES – DE – EN – FR – IT At a glance note: English Authors: EPC: Marta PILATI, Alison HUNTER Executive summary The EU’s lagging regions face significant challenges to transform their economic underperformance. Current ongoing transitions, such as digitalisation and towards a Read more…
Publication: September 2020 Download: English Executive summary: ES – DE – EN – FR – IT At a glance note: English Authors: Stefan KAH, Neli GEORGIEVA, Liliana FONSECA, EPRC Key findings Rural areas face social, structural and geographical challenges, but possess valuable inherent environmental, cultural and social assets. Cohesion Read more…
Publication: April 2020 Download: Executive summary: Authors: CSIL: Julie PELLEGRIN, Louis COLNOT, with support from Matteo PEDRALLI Country experts: University of Warsaw Diana IONESCU (RO), Tomasz KUPIEC (PL) Agnieszka OLECHNICKA (PL) CSIL: Matteo PEDRALLI (IT) ESTEP: Neringa Viršilienė (LT) Scientific Advisers: Free University of Brussels-VUB: Nicola Francesco Dotti and University of Milan: Massimo Florio Objectives and background This study provides members Read more…
How can the Just Transition Fund support the EU transition to climate neutral economy? That was the main question of discussion during the workshop on Just Transition Fund (JTF) organised by Parliamentary Committee for Regional Development (REI) on 19 February 2020. During the workshop, independent experts provided information about the Read more…
Publication: February 2020 Download: Authors: BRUEGEL – Aliénor Cameron, Grégory Claeys, Catarina Mideos & Simone Tagliapietra Introduction Soon after unveiling the overall roadmap for its flagship European Green Deal initiative, the European Commission published its first concrete proposal on 14 January 2020, on how to establish a Just Transition Mechanism (European Read more…
Publication: October 2019 Download: Authors: Carlos MENDEZ, Vasiliki TRIGA, John BACHTLER, Costas DJOUVAS, Fernando MENDEZ, Sebastian STIER This study evaluates the visibility and communication of cohesion policy in online media and the effectiveness of communication activities. A mixed methods approach is employed to investigate the coverage, representation and Read more…
Publication: November 2019 Download: Authors: TU Delft: Willem K KORTHALS ALTES, Marietta EA HAFFNER Assisted by Danielle A GROETELAERS Urban Agenda for the European Union The Urban Agenda for the European Union (UAEU) is an informal, multi-level cooperation partnership programme in which urban authorities, Member States, the European Read more…
Publication: October 2019 Download: English Authors: Stephan Dietzen/Marek Kołodziejski The commissioner-designate, Elisa Ferreira, appeared before the European Parliament on 02 October 2019 to answer questions put by MEPs from the Committee on Regional Development. During the hearing, she made a number of commitments which are highlighted in this document. These Read more…
How can the cohesion policy support gender equality in the European Union? On 4 November, Manuela Samek Lodovici from Istituto per la Ricerca Sociale made a presentation of the study “Gender Dimension of the EU Cohesion Policy”. The study analyses how EU cohesion policy addresses the gender dimension and the Read more…
What are the key current and emerging issues in EU cohesion policy? That was the main subject of a presentation provided by Carlos Mendez, Senior Research Fellow at the European Policies Research Centre Delft (EPRC Delft), to the Members of the European Parliament’s committee on regional development (REGI) on September Read more…