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  • EU regional policy reform and Slovenia
    Aristovnik, Aleksander
    ǂThe ǂEuropean Union (EU) is set to grow to 27 member-states over the next four years. The related enlargements will significantly reshape the maps of economic and social disparity across the EU and ... will require a fundamental reappraisal of the EU's regional policy. The key problem for the EU's regional policy is that most new member-states are very poor. Namely, regional income disparities in terms of the ratio of income per head in the top and bottom 10 percent regions was 2.6 in the EU-15 compared to 6 in the EU-27 in 2000. Accordingly, many members of the EU-15 will need to contemplate the implications of losing substantial receipts from EU Funds, while additional expenditure for cohesion policy in the new member-states should largely be financed by savings in the current member-states. Therefore, enlargement of the EU will require the most fundamental reform of the EU's regional policy since 1988. Slovenia as a new member-state will gain 405.4 million from EU Funds (1.9 percent of all allocated appropriations for new member-states) in the 2004-06 period. However, because of its relatively high GDP per head, Slovenia is likely to lose a significant part of EU aid after the reform of EU Funds in the 2007-2013 programming period. Consequently, to reduce this loss Slovenia should re-establish territorial units (at the NUTS II and III levels) in a more favourable form. Further, a lot of work should be done on the difference between institutional capacity and capability. Finally, Slovenia should resume its own regional policy reform and exploit any opportunities for continued EU intervention after 2006 by effectively engagingin Agenda 2007 debate in the coming years.
    Source: Naše gospodarstvo : revija za aktualna gospodarska vprašanja = Our economy : review of current problems in economics. - ISSN 0547-3101 (Letn. 49, št. 5/6, 2003, str. 395-417)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2003
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1834670

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