scholarly journals EUROPEAN FUNDS HELP ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE

World Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIA MAZARE
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Developmental Delays ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Industrial Decline ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Economic Union ◽  
The Eu

The EU Structural Funds are managed by the European Commission and are intended to finance structural assistance measures at Community level, with the aim of promoting regions with developmental delays, reconverting areas affected by industrial decline, combating long-term unemployment, employing young people or promoting rural development. The European Union is first and foremost an economic union. The central goal is to improve economic performance, including poverty reduction. Cohesion policy is the basic policy of the Structural Funds and is a key element in achieving the central goal.

scholarly journals Do Citizens Support Cohesion Policy? Measuring European support for redistribution within the EU and its correlates

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Charron
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Policy Tool ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
The Eu

As the European Union enters into the next decade, its leaders seemingly strive towards more future integration rather than less, despite the recent setback of Brexit and the rise of anti-EU populist parties.  In his state of the Union in 2018, Jean Claude Junker emphasized several ways forward - ‘European solidarity’, ‘rejection of exaggerated nationalism’, and support for ‘balanced migration reform’.  Yet he did not mention one key policy tool for achieving a closer Union – Cohesion Policy and the Structural Funds, which are “the only real, significant redistributive mechanism in the EU…” (Fratesi 2017) and consistently constitute the second largest item in the EU’s budget.  As Cohesion policy essentially redistributes resources from wealthier EU countries to poorer EU regions, creating winners (net recipients) and losers (net donors), it has been a target in anti-EU rhetoric, including in the lead up to Brexit.  Despite elite commentary, we know surprisingly little about what EU citizens think of the rationale behind the policy of Cohesion – e.g. economic redistribution within the EU.  As part of the PERCEIVE Horizon2020 project, we launched a unique survey to investigate how citizens feel about economic integration within the Union, where 17,200 citizens were interviewed.  In this paper, we show how we measure support for the policy, the results as well as a host of correlates. Our analysis shows the variation in citizens’ support for EU Cohesion policy between countries, how support varies between demographic groups, as well as the extent to which support is correlated with utilitarian and ideational factors as well as cue taking.  Implications for future developments of this policy are discussed.  

Development Finance in the Baltic States and the Process of Europeanization

2021 ◽  
pp. 253-282
Author(s):  
Olga Mikheeva ◽  
Egert Juuse
Keyword(s):  
Eastern European ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
External Financing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Development Finance ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

The Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, where European structural funds make up the lion share of national budgets, provides an opportunity to study how “development financing” is defined and operationalized in the context of dependency on external financing from the European Union (EU). The three Baltic republics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) represent a region with a particular socio-political history, similar economic structures and equally similar asymmetrical relations with the EU, which makes the entire notion of development finance institutions quite different from existing “strategic” qualities attributed to promotional banks as discussed in current literature. We aim to demonstrate that policy trajectories, largely shaped by the EU, and especially an overdependence on EU structural funds, result in a set of incentives that hinder the development of a more strategic approach to economic policies and policy-related finance in particular. We also argue that bureaucratic competences developed within such a context of external financing resemble a “managerial” type of Development Finance Institutions rather than “strategic” investing agents.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEMATICS OF MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE IN THE EU AND THE CURRENT SITUATION OF REGIONALIZATION OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND THE STRUCTURAL FUNDS ISSUES

Auspicia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
František Prášil
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Multilevel Governance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

ABSTRACT: This article deals with the issue of multilevel governance in the European Union. Firstly, it introduces the reader to the issue of multilevel governance in the relationship between the European Union and the Czech Republic. It focuses on processes, principles of multilevel governance, their development over time (especially after the Czech Republic's accession to the European Union). Secondly, the article examines the changes within the Czech Republic after its accession to the EU with regard to regions and regionalization. It points out the problems associated with drawing the EU structural funds. The article also deals with the issues of EU vs. Andrej Babiš and his business activities, in particular, the much-discussed Stork's Nest case. By summarizing the findings, the article attempts to provide readers with enough information to be able to get their own idea of whether or not the current Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has a conflict of interest with his business activities.

scholarly journals Impact of Investment Sources for Sustainability on a Country’s Sustainable Development: Evidence from the EU

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indre Lapinskaite ◽  
Viktorija Skvarciany ◽  
Patrikas Janulevicius
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Eu

All countries face several issues while running the process of sustainable development—the absence of a uniform means of sourcing investment for sustainable development and the lack of a unified index for the evaluation of sustainable development. No doubt, ensuring sustainable development requires constant financial investments. Hence, it is essential to examine the investment sources for sustainable development at the country level and to comprehend if the current financial investment has a direct impact on the results of a country’s sustainable development. The article aims at identifying the financing sources for sustainable development for each of the European Union (EU) countries and assessing their impact on each of the EU countries’ sustainable development, which is expressed as the Integrated Sustainable Development Index (ISDI). After the detailed analysis of investment sources for the sustainability of the EU countries, two sources of investment, assignation of budget and the EU structural funds, were selected, and ISDI calculation was applied for twenty-five of the EU member states for the period 2003–2017. Correlation analysis (using SPSS software) helped to identify the strength of the connection and to select countries for the Johansen Cointegration Test (using Eviews software) in order to determine how variables interact. The results show that the combination of the assignation of budget and the EU structural funds has a positive impact on the coherence of five (Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Slovenia, and Austria) out of twenty-four countries.

scholarly journals Major changes affecting EU funded loan and equity scheme management in 2021-2027 budgetary period

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 398-408
Author(s):  
Márk Bató
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Financial Instruments ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Capital Injections ◽  
The Eu

Approximately ten percent of support from the European Union structural funds sources was utilised as financial instruments in the 2014-2020 EU budgetary period. The term ‘financial instruments’ represents support in the form of loans and capital injections in Hungary. Programmes for 2021-2027 have not been finalised yet, but major amounts of money are expected to be used in the form of financial instruments. Therefore, one should review the changes affecting the criteria to use EU structural funds, which determine development policies in the next period regarding loan and equity schemes. Both the EU and the Hungarian regulatory framework have been established, they can be studied and used as the starting point of further planning. In this paper the major components of the relevant regulatory framework including its practical conclusions to be expected are discussed.

scholarly journals The main achievements of the EU structural funds 2007–2013 in the EU member states: efficiency analysis of transport sector

Equilibrium ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukáš Melecký
Keyword(s):  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
Lower Amount ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Member States ◽  
Development Fund ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
The Eu

Research background: The European Union currently provides financial support to the Member States through various financial tools from European Structural and Investment Funds 2014–2020, and previously from the EU Structural Funds. In both terminologies, the funds represent the main instrument of EU Cohesion Policy to sustain territorial development, to increase competitiveness and to eliminate regional disparities. The overall impact of EU Funds depends on the structure of funding and absorption capacity of the country. Purpose of the article: The efficiency of funding across the EU Member States is a fundamental issue for EU development as a whole. The Author considers deter-mining the efficiency of EU Funds as an issue of high importance, and therefore this paper provides a contribution to the debate on the role of EU Cohesion Policy in the Member States. The paper focuses on territorial effects of relevant EU Funds in programming period 2007–2013 in infrastructure through efficiency analysis. Methods: Efficiency analysis is based on data at the country level, originating from ex-post evaluation of Cohesion Policy programmes 2007–2013 and representing the input and output variables to analyse whether the goal of fostering growth in the target countries have been achieved with the funds provided, and whether or not more resources generated stronger growth effects in transport accessibility. The paper deals with comparative cross-country analysis, descriptive analysis of dataset and multiple-criteria approach of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the form of output-oriented BCC VRS model of efficiency and output-oriented APM VRS subsequently model of super-efficiency. Findings & Value added: The paper aims to test the factors of two inputs and five outputs, trying to elucidate the differences obtained by the Member States in effective use of the European Regional Development Fund and the Cohesion Fund in the transport sector. The paper determines if the countries have been more efficient in increasing their levels of competitive advantages linked with transport. Preliminary results reveal that most countries with a lower amount of funding achieve higher efficiency, especially countries in a group of so-called “old EU Member States”, i.e. group EU15.

scholarly journals Preparation of Serbia for implementation of Chapter 22 in the field of regional policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Sonja Živojinović
Keyword(s):  
Financial Management ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Member States ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Main Instrument ◽  
The Eu

Regional policy is the EU's main instrument for investing in sustainable and inclusive economic growth. Member States are responsible for its implementation, which requires adequate administrative capacity and sound financial management. When Serbia becomes a member of the EU, it will have at its disposal many times more funds from the EU structural funds than the ones it currently receives, and for the use of which it must prepare before joining the Union. Member States must respect EU law when selecting and implementing projects, in areas related to regional policy and Structural Instruments. Member States must also establish the institutional framework, organizational arrangements and necessary organizational arrangements to prepare supporting documents. This implies the establishment of all structures at the national and regional level required by EU regulations and standards. This Chapter 22 has a double meaning: it is important in itself, because through the negotiations on this Chapter it must be proven that we are in the mood to establish good and sufficient capacities for the use of EU Cohesion Policy. At the same time, Serbia is thus preparing to be an equal participant in the Union's Cohesion Policy, as well as all other member states.

scholarly journals The Use Of EU Structural Funds By Enterprises In The Lodz Region

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Dorożyński ◽  
Janusz Świerkocki ◽  
Wojciech Urbaniak
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Economic Literature ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Direct Study ◽  
Limited Scale ◽  
Eu Structural Funds ◽  
Open Question ◽  
The Eu

The issue of how to stimulate economic growth and development remains an open question. The EU structural funds are meant to help solve the problem at the regional level within the framework of the cohesion policy. Only some of these funds are used to directly subsidize businesses that are the engines of growth in a market economy. This paper aims to evaluate whether structural funds have played a positive and significant role in the development of enterprises in a region which does not belong to the economic leaders in Poland. It is based on the results of a direct study, statistical data and evaluation reports, as well as on the economic literature. The direct study was conducted in 2011. It focused on micro-economic projects supported by EU funds in the Lodz region. Interviews were conducted with representatives of 80 enterprises, which had completed at least one such a project. We conclude that the subsidies from structural funds have positively stimulated the modernization of the companies, albeit on a limited scale.

Implementation of European Union structural and cohesion policy after 2020

2020 ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Mária Petríková
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Commission ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Cohesion Policy ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Financial Framework ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Investment Tool ◽  
Programming Period ◽  
The Eu

Structural and cohesion policy is one of the European Union’s main instruments for implementing one of its main principles, and that is solidarity between the more economically developed regions and those which are lagging behind in economic and social terms. Reducing regional disparities in the European Union is achieved through individual instruments, the most important of which are the structural funds. The preparation of legislation and conditions for the new programming period 2021-2027 is currently being intensively negotiated at the level of the European Commission and the Member States. These processes are affected by the fact that the European Union is currently facing many new challenges that affect the setting of priorities as well as the new multiannual financial framework. Cohesion policy is the European Union’s most powerful investment tool and currently accounts for one-third of the EU budget but cuts proposed by the Commission for the years 2021-2017 would reduce its share considerably.Key words: cohesion, European Union, programming period 2021-2027, legislative

European Integration

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann P. Arnason
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
The Eu

Different understandings of European integration, its background and present problems are represented in this book, but they share an emphasis on historical processes, geopolitical dynamics and regional diversity. The introduction surveys approaches to the question of European continuities and discontinuities, before going on to an overview of chapters. The following three contributions deal with long-term perspectives, including the question of Europe as a civilisational entity, the civilisational crisis of the twentieth century, marked by wars and totalitarian regimes, and a comparison of the European Union with the Habsburg Empire, with particular emphasis on similar crisis symptoms. The next three chapters discuss various aspects and contexts of the present crisis. Reflections on the Brexit controversy throw light on a longer history of intra-Union rivalry, enduring disputes and changing external conditions. An analysis of efforts to strengthen the EU’s legal and constitutional framework, and of resistances to them, highlights the unfinished agenda of integration. A closer look at the much-disputed Islamic presence in Europe suggests that an interdependent radicalization of Islamism and the European extreme right is a major factor in current political developments. Three concluding chapters adopt specific regional perspectives. Central and Eastern European countries, especially Poland, are following a path that leads to conflicts with dominant orientations of the EU, but this also raises questions about Europe’s future. The record of Scandinavian policies in relation to Europe exemplifies more general problems faced by peripheral regions. Finally, growing dissonances and divergences within the EU may strengthen the case for Eurasian perspectives.

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