Why Scottish and Welsh Speakers Will Miss European Structural Funds

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.53779/jkwo3330 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Craig Willis

Keyword(s):

Investment Funds ◽

Structural Funds ◽

Celtic Languages ◽

Peripheral Areas

In this blog piece Craig Willis investigates the contribution of European Structural and Investment Funds projects in the period between 2007-2013 and 2014-2020, in order to ascertain direct and indirect links to the four Celtic languages, following the separation of cultural funds from the ESIF into Creative Europe and Erasmus Plus from 2007. He shows that, given that the speakers of such languages often reside in economically peripheral areas (at least in higher percentage terms), their livelihoods and everyday culture in the traditional speaking areas (even for non-speakers) are affected by availability of structural funds.

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Distributing the European structural and investment funds from a conflicting claims approach

Review of Regional Research ◽

10.1007/s10037-021-00164-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

María-José Solís-Baltodano ◽

José-Manuel Giménez-Gómez ◽

Josep E. Peris

Keyword(s):

Investment Funds ◽

Actual Problem ◽

Development Fund ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Structural Funds ◽

European Regional Development Fund ◽

Allocation Process ◽

Claims Problem ◽

Future Policy ◽

The Eu

AbstractIn order to support economic development across all European Union regions, €351.8 billion –almost a third of the total EU budget– has been set aside for the Cohesion Policy during the 2014–2020 period. The distribution of this budget is made through five main structural and investment funds, after long and difficult negotiations among the EU member states. This paper analyzes the problem of allocating the limited resources of the European Regional Development Fund as a conflicting claims problem. Specifically, we attempt to show how the conflicting claims approach fits this actual problem, and we propose alternative ways of distributing the budget via (i) claims solutions or (ii) the imposition of bounds (guarantees) to each of the regions. By applying this approach we also show that there is a claims solution that performs better than the others by reducing inequality and promoting convergence to a greater degree. It is clear that political bargaining will always be part of the allocation process. However, having an intuitive initial proposal may help politicians to find the best agreement. To that effect, we propose the use of a claims solution as a way to find an initial proposal for future policy changes concerning the allocations of the EU structural funds.

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Some Thoughts on the Administration of the Regional Development in the Member States of the EU – In the Light of the Role of the Municipal Bodies

Central European Public Administration Review ◽

10.17573/cepar.v16i1.355 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 7-29

Author(s):

István Hoffman

Keyword(s):

Regional Development ◽

Regional Planning ◽

Good Governance ◽

The European Union ◽

Investment Funds ◽

Member States ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Structural Funds ◽

Decentralised Systems

Municipalities are traditionally responsible for several regional planning and development tasks even if different systems have evolved in the Member States of the European Union. The administration of regional planning has been strongly influenced by the European integration. The allocation of the European Structural and Investment Funds was a major task of the recipients. The regional approach of the structural funds was a catalyst for the territorial reforms in several EU Member States. Although originally the regional reforms were based on the NPM-related reforms the changes were supported by the post-NPM paradigms (especially by the Good Governance paradigm) as well. In several countries the Crisis caused centralisation and the concentration of the structures. Thus three major models could be distinguished: centralised regional development systems, decentralised systems and federal systems. The characteristics of these systems are reviewed in the article focusing on their major differences and similarities.

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EU regional policy in the context of smart-specialization: efficiency of priority directions’ funding

Regional Economy ◽

10.36818/1562-0905-2020-1-19 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 172-183

Author(s):

Maryana Melnyk ◽

Svitlana Shchehlyuk ◽

Iryna Leshchukh ◽

Roman Yaremchuk

Keyword(s):

Regional Policy ◽

Energy Transport ◽

Green Technologies ◽

Investment Funds ◽

Eu Countries ◽

Structural Funds ◽

Close Relationship ◽

Per Capita ◽

Smart Specialization ◽

Transport Mobility

The paper provides the evaluation of the efficiency of financing the regional policy promotion activities from the EU structural funds and efficiency of funding of national and regional smart specialization strategies’ priorities in 2014-2020. It determines 6 key smart specialization domains among 216 RIS3 of national and regional (NUTS 2) levels: agriculture, food, and biotechnologies; green technologies, energy; transport, mobility, logistics; ICT; life sciences, biotechnologies, pharmacy, biotechnologies; material sciences and intellectual production. Four hypotheses on the close relationship between the investment volumes, directions, and results of their use are empirically verified. The results of the applied correlation analysis show the close relationship between the volumes of funding of the smart-specialization activities and the paces of agricultural output per capita with three clusters of countries by the distribution of funding by the strategic priorities. Regarding the other smart specialization priorities – “environmental technologies, energy efficiency” and “transport, mobility, logistics”, the dependence between the funding from the European Structural and Investment Funds and reducing CO2 emissions from new vehicles is proven. Support of strategic priorities “material science” and “smart production” by European Structural and Investment Funds in 2014-2020 is characterized by growing GRP volumes per capita with clear differences between the developed and average-level EU countries. The reasonability of supporting the implementation of the smart-priority “medicine, pharmacy, healthcare” in most RIS3 of EU countries and the substantial correlation of financial support from EU funds with the paces of state expenses on healthcare increase is substantiated. The conclusions about the efficiency of selected priorities, their high convergence ability, and the capacity to form transnational cooperation are made.

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Institutional Investors on the Securities Market

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2003-8-95-101 ◽

2003 ◽

pp. 95-101

Author(s):

O. Khmyz

Keyword(s):

Financial Crisis ◽

Capital Market ◽

Hedge Funds ◽

Institutional Investors ◽

Securities Market ◽

Main Role ◽

Investment Funds ◽

Investment Process ◽

The Capital Market

Acording to the author's opinion, institutional investors (from many participants of the capital market) play the main role, especially investment funds. They supply to small-sized investors special investment services, which allow them to participate in the investment process. However excessive institutialization and increasing number of hedge-funds may lead to financial crisis.

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