scholarly journals EVOLUTION OF COHESION POLICY. MISSION AND GOVERNANCE

Author(s):  
Igor Jašurek

Cohesion policy is the major investment vehicle and the most reforming EU budgetary chapter. Its landmark reforms mark key integration processes in the European Union. The present policy paper provides reflections of the dynamics of the main development trends in cohesion policy as determined by global phenomena, namely the economic and financial crisis and the current COVID-19 pandemic. They severely hit the entire EU, inevitably also affecting cohesion policy. The article shows that governance and the mission of cohesion policy has been adjusted to their aftermaths. Reforms introduced new measures and reinforced policy’s centralized European profile. Thus, evolution of cohesion policy is an illustration of its transformation from the merely redistributive tool with limited budgetary resources into the full-fledged development policy aimed at safeguarding that EU’s visions and goals will be pursued. The paper concludes that a new architecture poses the major challenge for cohesion policy after 2020 as its responsibilities and ever tightening governance continues while its budgets shrinks.

Author(s):  
N. Arbatova

The focal point of the article is the future of the European Union that has been challenged by the deepest systemic crisis in its history. The world economic and financial crisis became merely a catalyst for those problems that had existed earlier and had not been addressed properly by the EU leadership. The author argues that the EU crisis can be overcome only by new common efforts of its member-states and new integrationist projects.


2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Ciani ◽  
Francesca Gagliardi ◽  
Samuele Riccarelli ◽  
Gianni Betti

The main scope of the paper is to adopt a fuzzy sets approach for the measurement of multidimensional poverty over a period of eight years, from 2007 to 2015, which takes into account the effect of the 2008 economic and financial crisis. In particular, the focus is on the financial dimension of poverty, and its effects on citizens in the EU Mediterranean Area. The empirical analysis, based on the European Union—Statistics on Income and Living Conditions survey (EU-SILC), covers eight Mediterranean Countries.


Author(s):  
Luísa Araújo ◽  
Maria João Coelho

In recent decades, energy and environment public policies have acquired an unquestioned strategic and economic importance. In this article,wedrawthe path of these policies in Portugal over the last 40 years, anchoring the analysis in the international context, particularly in the context of the European Union. The main results of the public policies are displayed and a brief analysis of the strategy to be undertaken by Portugal within its context of economic and financial crisis is presented.


2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-67
Author(s):  
Vít Kropjok

Abstract In the current time there are many initiatives that are aimed to protect financial institution clients in the European Union. Current economic and financial crisis has shown that there is a need for common approach in this area. Some proposals have been passed. But there are still some in the bill stage and the deposit guarantee schema is one of them. The aim of the article is therefore to describe briefly and assess the proposed European model. The article also contains comparison with the operating United States model due to the inspiration possibility.


2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna L Muehlenhoff ◽  
Anna van der Vleuten ◽  
Natalie Welfens

The European Union has faced several crises in the past decades, including the economic and financial crisis, Brexit, a migration, climate change and security crisis, and the latest COVID-19 crisis. In this context, feminist scholars have shown how the causes and effects of the economic and financial crisis are strongly gendered. Generally, this literature suggests that crises can open a window of opportunity for gender considerations but may also promote policies which exacerbate gendered inequalities. Yet, the impact of crises on the attention to gender equality in European Union’s external relations is still unknown. This is surprising, as the European Union has promised to mainstream gender in all external policies, and understands itself to be a normative power and gender actor in world politics. This Special Issue analyses how the European Union’s identification of crisis and its policy responses to crisis in different external policy fields are gendered. The introduction situates the Special Issue within existing scholarship, theorises the central concepts of this Special Issue – crisis, gender (equality) and the European Union identities – and highlights how the different contributions advance our understanding of how gender figures in European Union’s external relations in past, current and future times of crisis.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol Gören

At least since the onset of the economic and financial crisis in 2007, grave deficits of the institutional supervisory structure of the European Union have been revealed. Despite the global interdependence of the financial markets, it was characterized by a material and procedural supervision usually ending at the respective borders of the member states that reached its limits with respect to transnational cases in particular. The result of numerous reform discussions was the implementation of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) which, at the same time, constitutes the key element of the European Banking Union. This dissertation particularly analyses the implementation act underlying the SSM, its organisation and its functions and competences, while at the same time offering a synopsis of the structure of European financial supervision.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-193
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Mazur ◽  
Jakub Banach

Abstract The accession of the Visegrad Group (V4) countries to the European Union has triggered their active participation in assistance to less developed countries. Since joining the EU, the analyzed countries have developed ODA legislation and an institutional framework and increased financing in development co-operation. Being a member of the EU and DAC, all V4 countries also have their legal and financial obligations in the area of development co-operation. The shared experience of those countries in creating and implementing their development policy gives reason to investigate their aid systems, development policy challenges and implementation of their commitments as a group of donors. The aims of the paper are to identify main development trends of the V4 countries’ development policies as well as to investigate the implementation of their development commitments taken at a global and EU level. This has allowed to define the main challenges for V4 countries in delivering efficient development assistance to other developing countries in the future, such as improvements in institutional systems, transparent and clearly defined legislation as well as substantial increase of financing transferred by V4 to ODA.


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