RésuméLa culture, catégorie d'action publique aux contours flous et évolutifs, est envisagée à Bruxelles suivant une approche transversale, appelée aussi mainstreaming culture. Celle-ci consiste à ...prendre en compte les enjeux de ce secteur dans l'ensemble des politiques communautaires. Cette approche offre l'opportunité à la culture de déborder de ses frontières sectorielles et d'amplifier son périmètre ; elle comporte aussi des risques liés à ses contenus et aux intérêts divergents des nombreux acteurs qui la façonnent et la mettent en œuvre. La politique de cohésion européenne illustre ce franchissement sectoriel de l'action culturelle, celle-ci étant incluse dans une programmation dite intégrée. Elle met dans le même temps en lumière des désajustements sectoriels entre deux niveaux d'action publique, lorsque les acteurs territoriaux traduisent les orientations bruxelloises par une forme d'intersectorialité inaboutie. Mobilisée pour répondre à des objectifs multiples, la culture ne tient pas ses promesses et les moyens qui lui sont alloués diminuent au fil des années. Ces dynamiques influencent la nature du partenariat impliqué dans cette action, laissant sur le côté de nombreux acteurs culturels. Le franchissement des frontières sectorielles aboutit à une fragmentation et une dilution des actions menées, renforçant les fractures au sein de la scène culturelle régionale.
The European Community has provided financial support for cross-border territorial cooperation since 1990. The justification of the European Union (EU)’s current territorial cooperation policy for ...cross-border contiguous regions lies in its capacity to promote functional economic links between them. This capacity is based on two assumptions, namely that there is a relation between the degree of institutional cooperation achieved and the financial support provided by the EU, and that there is a relationship between the degree of institutional cooperation achieved and the development of functional economic links. This article attempts to measure both the impact of Community support on territorial institutional cooperation intensity and the impact of institutional cooperation intensity on economic functional links. This is done using primary data for EU-15 regions for the period between1992 and 2007.
The issues of the renewable energy and regional development have become major priorities for public policy makers across the globe. Therefore, this study explores some European experiences and steps ...forward in the field of the management of renewable energy and regional development. Firstly, an overview of renewable energy issues in European regions is revealed, and secondly, some measures and actions for managing regional development of renewable energy in Romania taking into account the financial allocations through the Cohesion Policy are disclosed. The results of this study may be used for upcoming research in the area of implementing renewable energy projects for urban and rural development of the regions.
The European Community has provided financial support for cross-border territorial cooperation since 1990. The justification of the European Union (EU)’s current territorial cooperation policy for ...cross-border contiguous regions lies in its capacity to promote functional economic links between them. This capacity is based on two assumptions, namely that there is a relation between the degree of institutional cooperation achieved and the financial support provided by the EU, and that there is a relationship between the degree of institutional cooperation achieved and the development of functional economic links. This article attempts to measure both the impact of Community support on territorial institutional cooperation intensity and the impact of institutional cooperation intensity on economic functional links. This is done using primary data for EU-15 regions for the period between1992 and 2007.
In the 2014–2020 programming period, the cohesion policy focuses more on results
and evaluation of programs based on facts. Due to the Commission policies, an
expansion of cohesion policy ...counterfactual impact evaluation of programmes with
new approaches can be expected in the future. In this paper, the focus is on the
calculation of the impact of received European cohesion funds on the revenue of
companies in Slovenian municipalities one/two years after the receipt of cohesion
funds for the 2007–2013 period. Two development priorities that affect company
revenue – Enterprise competitiveness and research excellence and Promoting
entrepreneurship and adaptability are considered. The effect of the use of the
European cohesion funds on company revenue in Slovenian municipalities is positive
for 2009 and 2010 and negative for all other years examined. The results of the
research can serve to policy-makers to reduce the economic, social and territorial
disparities in less developed European countries and regions therefore reaching
balanced regional development.
The issues of the renewable energy and regional development have become major priorities for public policymakers across the globe. Therefore, this study explores some European experiences and steps ...forward in the field of the management of renewable energy and regional development. Firstly, an overview of renewable energy issues in European regions is revealed, and secondly, some measures and actions for managing regional development of renewable energy in Romania taking into account the financial allocations through the Cohesion Policy are disclosed. The results of this study may be used for upcoming research in the area of implementing renewable energy projects for urban and rural development of the regions.
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POMPILI T. (1994) Structure and performance of less developed regions in the EC, Reg. Studies
28, 679-693. This paper aims at contributing to the identification of post-Internal Market development ...prospects and policy options of a group of less advanced regions in the European Community, the so-called 'Objective 1' (low-income) regions. After introducing the appropriate conceptual framework and presenting the data and methodology, the first goal is to construct a taxonomy highlighting structural differences among EC Objective 1 regions, in terms of resource endowments, and hence of potential comparative advantages. The second goal is to evaluate, against this structural taxonomy, the 1980s performance of these regions relative to other Community regions, in order to draw broad policy conclusions. Both quantitative and qualitative 1981 data concerning industrial structure, manufacturing entrepreneurship, human capital, accessibility and infrastructure, external diseconomies and data on regional per capita income performance in the 1980s are employed in cluster and discriminant analyses.
POMPILI T. (1994) La structure et la performance des régions défavorisées au sein de la CE, Reg. Studies
28, 679-693. Cet article cherche à contribuer à la délimitation des perspectives d'avenir et des choix de politique d'un groupe de régions défavorisées à l'intérieur de la CE, lesdites régions à faible revenu de l'Objectif 1, suite à l'ouverture du marché unique. Une fois présenté le cadre conceptuel, les données et la méthodologie il s'agit de construire une taxonomie qui permet la mise en lumière des différences structurelles des régions de l'Objectif 1 en fonction de la dotation de ressources et, par la suite, de la possibilité des avantages comparatifs. Vu cette taxonomie structurelle, il s'ensuit une évaluation de la performance de ces régions aux années 80 par rapport aux autres régions de la CE afin d'en tirer des conclusions générales pour la politique. On utilise à la fois des données quantitatives et qualitatives pour l'année 1981 relatives à la structure industrielle, à l'esprit d'entreprise dans la fabrication, au capital humain, à l'accessibilité et à l'équipement, aux déséconomies externes, et des données sur le revenu régional par tête aux années 80 à partir des analyses par grappes et discriminante.
POMPILI T. (1994) Struktur und Leistung unterentwickkelter Gebiete in der EG, Reg. Studies
28, 679-693. Dieser Aufsatz beabsichtigt, sowohl zur Identifizierung von Entwicklungsprospekten des nicht mehr aufs Binnenland beschränkten Markts beizutragen, als auch zu Optionen bei Zielsetzungen einer Gruppe unterentwickelter Gebiete in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft, der sogenannten Niedrigeinkommensgebiete ('Ziel 1'). Nach Einfuhrung in den entsprechenden begrifflichen Zusammenhang und Vorstellung von Daten und Methodik ist es das erste Ziel, eine Taxonomie aufzustellen, die strukturelle Unterschiede zwischen 'Ziel 1' Gebieten der EG in Bezug auf ihre Ressourcenschätze, und daher potenziellen vergleichbaren Vorteile, aufzeigt. Das zweite Ziel ist, gegen den Hintergrund dieser strukturellen Taxonomie die Leistung dieser Gebiete im Jahre 1980 im Vergleich mit anderen Regionen der EG einzuschätzen, um Zielsetzungen in groβen Zügen zu umreiβen. Kluster- und Diskriminanzanalysen benutzen quantitative und qualitative Daten der industriellen Struktur, des Unternehmertums in der herstellenden Industrie, des Menschenkapitals, der Zugänglichkeit und Infrastruktur vom Jahre 1981, wie auch aufäuβeren Umständen beruhende Unwirtschaftlichkeiten und Daten über regionale Einkommensleistungen pro Kopf in den achtziger Jahren.
Over the 1995–1999 programming period, Austria will receive a total of ECU 1,623 billion from the EU structural funds, of which 42 percent is explicitly designed for regional policy purposes. The ...list agreed upon of regions qualifying for subsidies and other support is well-targeted in that such regions are defined by relatively poor economic performance, deficits in human capital endowment and an unfavorable employment trend. Still, by not being sufficiently restrictive – covering 40.9 percent of the population – it does not guarantee an adequate concentration of resources on the major problem areas. It is therefore left to regional policy at the national level to set meaningful priorities within the scope of the negotiated list.
Structural funds are the most intensively used policy instrument by the European Union to promote economic growth in its member states and to speed up the process of convergence. This paper ...empirically explores the effectiveness of European Structural Funds by means of a panel data analysis for 13 countries in the European Union. We show that on average Structural Funds are ineffective. For countries with high-quality institutions, however, Structural Funds are effective. This result is obtained for several proxies for institutional quality and is robust for different estimation techniques (OLS, period- and country-specific fixed effects and dynamic panel data models).
