EU Cohesion Policy in the Czech Republic and Poland: Comparison of Intervention Areas Among Regions

The cohesion policy of the European Union represents a significant part its budget and delivers interventions across all regions EU. There is little consensus on efficiency, links to fostering convergence regional level are uncertain. Nevertheless, were shown benefit from promoting their growth development. main objective reduce disparities that exist among lagging other, more developed regions. Therefore, this paper focuses deliverance in Central Eastern countries, Poland Czech Republic. It explores support thematic 2014-2020 period. Findings point out different Polish according relative advancement. Lagging received substantial related endogenous potential for development increase quality human capital. In contrast, treated comparably regardless stages. This points approaches implementing these countries