Cohesion Policy of the European Union: Facilitated by Supranational Institutions and Regional Autonomy or Hindered by National Sovereignty?

The article is devoted to the study of the implementation of territorial cohesion policy in the European Union in order to achieve a secure regional coexistence. In particular, the regulatory and institutional origins of territorial cohesion policy in the EU are considered. The evolution of ontological models of cohesion policy has been outlined. Specifically, the emphasis is placed on the key objective of political geography – effectively combining the need for "territorialization" and the growing importance of networking. The role of urbanization processes in the context of cohesion policy is highlighted. Cross-border dimensions of cohesion policy in the context of interregional cooperation are explored. Particular emphasis is placed on the features of integrated sustainable development strategies.

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The European Union and Diplomatic Law

10.1093/oso/9780198795940.003.0018 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Graham Butler

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

External Action ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Second World War ◽

First Century ◽

The European Union ◽

Nation States ◽

Supranational Institutions ◽

Second World ◽

The Eu

Not long after the establishment of supranational institutions in the aftermath of the Second World War, the early incarnations of the European Union (EU) began conducting diplomacy. Today, EU Delegations (EUDs) exist throughout the world, operating similar to full-scale diplomatic missions. The Treaty of Lisbon established the legal underpinnings for the European External Action Service (EEAS) as the diplomatic arm of the EU. Yet within the international legal framework, EUDs remain second-class to the missions of nation States. The EU thus has to use alternative legal means to form diplomatic missions. This chapter explores the legal framework of EU diplomatic relations, but also asks whether traditional missions to which the VCDR regime applies, can still be said to serve the needs of diplomacy in the twenty-first century, when States are no longer the ultimate holders of sovereignty, or the only actors in international relations.

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Crisis and Intergovernmental Retrenchment in the European Union? Framing the EU’s Answer to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chinese Political Science Review ◽

10.1007/s41111-020-00171-0 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Eugenio Salvati

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Institutional Capacity ◽

Social Effects ◽

Political Integration ◽

The European Union ◽

Key Factors ◽

Core State ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Supranational Institutions ◽

The Eu

AbstractThe outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has placed severe pressure on the EU’s capacity to provide a timely and coordinated response capable of curbing the pandemic’s disastrous economic and social effects on EU member states. In this situation, the supranational institutions and their models of action are evidently under pressure, seeming incapable of leading the EU out of the stormy waters of the present crisis. The article frames the first months of management of the COVID-19 crisis at EU level as characterised by the limited increase in the level of steering capacity by supranational institutions, due to the reaffirmed centrality of the intergovernmental option. To explain this situation, the article considers the absence of the institutional capacity/legitimacy to extract resources from society(ies), and the subsequent impossibility of guaranteeing an effective and autonomous process of political (re)distribution, the key factors accounting for the weakness of vertical political integration in the response to the COVID-19 challenge. This explains why during the COVID-19 crisis as well, the pattern followed by the EU is rather similar to past patterns, thus confirming that this has fed retrenchment aimed at the enforcement of the intergovernmental model and the defence of the most sensitive core state powers against inference from supranational EU institutions.

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Comparative analysis of the strategic objectives of European Union for the past programming period 2007-2013 and for the current programming period 2014-2020

Review on Agriculture and Rural Development ◽

10.14232/rard.2016.1-2.64-70 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1-2) ◽

pp. 64-70

Author(s):

Miroslav Raicov ◽

Andrea Fehér ◽

Tabita Adamov ◽

Sorin Stanciu

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Life Quality ◽

Business Environment ◽

Local Context ◽

The European Union ◽

Cohesion Policy ◽

Member States ◽

Research And Innovation ◽

Employment Education ◽

Programming Period

The growing competition between different regions, thus their activities performed under both within and outside the European Union represents a fact of the "globalized" world in which we are living. For many years, the regional disparities in terms of development level and life quality were subject to national policies of the Member States. Many improvements have been observed since the European Union initiated the policy of reducing them. The Cohesion Policy of the European Union has an unique irreplaceable role in the coagulation of integrated development strategies, comprising interventions in different areas, such as infrastructure, research and innovation, employment, education, business, environment protection, climate changes and energy efficiency within a package of coherent policies addressing to regional or even local context, being one of the most visible policies, especially in what regards the relationship with citizens. Thus, the Cohesion Policy target is represented by supporting the process of reducing the disparities between the regions and Member States more developed of the European Union and the ones that are less developed.

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COHESION POLICY INSTRUMENTS SUPPORTING TOURISM DEVELOPMENT

Annals of the Polish Association of Agricultural and Agribusiness Economists ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0013.0849 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol XXI (1) ◽

pp. 38-46

Author(s):

Natalia Dominiak

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Policy Instruments ◽

The European Union ◽

Cohesion Policy ◽

Financial Perspective ◽

Interdisciplinary Character ◽

The Subject ◽

Programming Period ◽

Council Of Ministers ◽

Empirical Material

The aim of the article is to discuss issues related to the development of tourism in the context of the possibility of financial support available from cohesion policy funds in the current financial perspective for the years 2014-2020. The particular attention was paid to the multifaceted nature of modern tourism and the directions of changes in the use of EU funds, referring to the completed programming period 2007-2013. An attempt was also made to indicate the significance of tourism in the section of the national economy of Poland and in the European Union, concentrating on its interdisciplinary character. Characteristics of cohesion policy, its goals and principles of functioning were made. The article is of a review nature, which means that the authors’ own materials and empirical material from the literature of the subject were used. The figures were obtained from reports published by the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers. It was found out that the amount of allocated funds for cohesion policy among all European Union countries in 2014-2020 is the highest for Poland and amounts to EUR 72.9 billion. There is an increase in the amount of funds allocated from the European Union to Poland, compared to the amount of allocated funds in the 2007-2013 perspective. It was also pointed out that the cohesion policy instruments mentioned above only indirectly contribute to the development of tourism, as the financing for 2014-2020 lacks programs and activities entirely dedicated to tourism.

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Rating Analysis of Cohesion Policy of the European Union and the Member Countries

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3637950 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Metodi Hristov

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

The European Union ◽

Cohesion Policy

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Religion and Law in the European Union

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198834267.013.16 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 306-322

Author(s):

Norman Doe ◽

Frank Cranmer

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

The European Union ◽

Cultural Elements ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Seven Principles ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Religion And Law ◽

Regulatory Instruments ◽

Religious Associations ◽

Supranational Institutions

All three major European supranational institutions—the European Union (EU), the Council of Europe (CoE), and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)—acknowledge the importance of religion within European history and culture and give special recognition to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion. As has been argued elsewhere, the attitude of both the EU and the CoE to ‘religion’ is characterized by seven principles—the value of religion and of non-religion; subsidiarity; religious freedom; religious equality and non-discrimination; the autonomy of religious associations; cooperation with religion; and the special protection of religion by means of privileges and exemptions—principles that may be induced from their laws and other regulatory instruments. In doing so, they seek to maintain a balance between Europe’s religious, humanist, and cultural elements. How that balance and recognition operate in practice, however, is far from clear-cut and is highly sensitive to individual circumstances.

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