Does EU cohesion policy work? Theory and evidence

Does Cohesion Policy Work? Some General Considerations and Evidence from Spain

Economic and Social Cohesion Policy and Enlargement of the EU

ant Croatoslavia, politically, economically and culturally attractive to all Southern Slavs, including those still under Ottoman sovereignty. All of this was to have been sanctioned under a direct arrangement with the Austrian Crown without Hungarian co-tutelage. 7 Josip Juraj Strossmayer (1815-1905), bishop, patron of the arts, chief donator of the Yugoslav (today Croatian) Academyof Sciencesa...

Cohesion and Growth in the EU

The analysis of economic disparities within the European Union strongly depends on the regional level concerned. Whereas the economic gap between the member states of the EU15 has decreased over the last decades, regional disparities on the NUTS2-level have rather deepened. The reason for these contradictory findings can be found in the increasing disparities within many of the member states: E...

Evidence-based policy or policy-based evidence gathering? Biofuels, the EU and the 10% target

The 2009 Renewable Energy Directive mandates European Union member-states’ road transport fuel to comprise a minimum of 10% renewable content by 2020. This target is expected to be met predominantly from biofuels. However, scientific evidence is increasingly questioning the ability of biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions when factors such as indirect land-use change are taken into consid...

How to strengthen the territorial dimension of ‘Europe 2020’ and the EU Cohesion Policy REPORT