scholarly journals Festina lente. The first steps towards regional policy and the origins of a European model of territorial cohesion

2015 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Laura Grazi
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
European Regions ◽  
Council Of Europe ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Strategic Design ◽  
European Model ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Territorial Cohesion ◽  
European Regional ◽  
The Eu

This paper focuses on how the slow but steady development of the EU regional policy was shaped by the gradual emergence of a territorial perspective in its strategic design. In particular, it examines the origins of regional policy, shedding light on its first stage of formulation, from the Treaty of Paris to the adoption of the European Regional Development Fund (1951-1975). Notably it analyses some underlying factors influencing its elaboration: the idea and vision of transnational spatial planning promoted by the Council of Europe, the exchange of ideas within the European Commission expert groups on town and country planning and the territorial studies relating to the first EEC enlargement. This cultural milieu contributed to a common outlook on the equilibrium of the European regions, thus planting a seed that would ripen into the “territorial cohesion” model recently included in the Lisbon Treaty.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_12_2

scholarly journals Effectiveness of EU Regional Policy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Finland

REGION ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Ville Vehkasalo
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Postal Code ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Postal Code Area ◽  
European Regional ◽  
The Eu

European Union regional policy is implemented through structural funds, such as the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), which support investment in peripheral regions of the EU. We studied the effects of EU regional policy on key economic variables using a rare natural experiment setting. In 2007, parts of regions that were previously covered by the ERDF programme for Western Finland were reallocated to the ERDF programme for Northern Finland, with higher support intensity per capita. This area reallocation was caused by the newly adopted EU legislation regulating the classification of regional statistical areas. With a detailed postal code area dataset and a difference-in-differences estimator, we discovered desirable regional policy effects on unemployment and the number of jobs.

Origini e sfide della politica regionale comunitaria: dagli studi preliminari all'Atto unico europeo (1957-1986)

2009 ◽  
pp. 47-57
Author(s):  
Laura Grazi
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Single European Act ◽  
Community Programmes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
European Regional

- The article describes the different stages which marked the elaboration of the EEC regional policy starting from the preliminary studies in the Sixties to the formal inclusion of this domain in the Single European Act (1986). The creation of the European Regional Development Fund (1975) and its reforms are crucial events in the definition of the EEC regional policy which highlight the slow and difficult passage from a system redistributing money among Member States to the launch of new form of supranational territorial solidarity. The ERDF, that was initially linked to the need to rearrange the financial benefits of membership/accession to the EEC for some members States (in particular, Italy and Great Britain), was later rearranged in order to allow more autonomous policy choices at the Community level (Community programmes). The Integrated Mediterranean Programmes, adopted in the Eighties, are the symbol of this new approach because they linked EEC regional measures to common problems arising from economic integration and increased the coordinating functions of the Commission.Parole chiave: Politica regionale della CEE, Commissione europea, Economie regionali, FESR, Programmi comunitari, PIM EEC Regional Policy; European Commission, Regional Economies, European Regional Development Fund, Community Programmes, Integrated Mediterranean Programmes

The European Economic Community's regional policy during the ‘age of disorder'. From ‘harmonious development' to market-oriented policies (1972-1987)

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-154
Author(s):  
Antonio Bonatesta
Keyword(s):  
Regional Policy ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Public Intervention ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Single European Act ◽  
European Regional

This article examines the transformation of the European Economic Community's (EEC) regional policy paradigms from the early 1970s, when negotiations for the creation of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) began, until the approval of the Single European Act. The article identifies this period as the beginning of a deep transition from demand-side "interventionist" and "neo-mercantilist" models — typical of certain regional policies used up to that time by member states (primarily by Italy) — towards more openly neoliberal models. My analysis of the harsh conflicts within the Regional Policy Committee (the national technocracies' representative body in charge of managing the ERDF) and between the committee and the European Commission demonstrate that this outcome was not at all taken for granted. It was determined, above all, by the overload of objectives of EEC regional policy in a context of scarce resources, and by the progressive lack of trust in the role of public intervention.

scholarly journals A Clash between the Business and Political Climates in Sweden – Gender in the European Structural Fund Partnerships

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Hedfeldt ◽  
Gun Hedlund
Keyword(s):  
Women Entrepreneurs ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Structural Fund ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional Development Fund ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
European Regional ◽  
Gain Access ◽  
The Eu

In this paper we highlight and discuss a Swedish equality paradox in two different spheres: entrepreneurship and politics. We focus on the EU Structural Funds and women entrepreneurs' access to resources through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Combining human geography and political science, we draw upon network and partnership theory posing questions concerning the room for manoeuvre for women entrepreneurs to gain access to relevant networks, to create new networks in order to establish relations with EU related partnerships, and to gain access to the process of allocating EU structural fund financial resources.

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