 The Future of EU Regional PolicyGlobal Economic Observer, 2014, vol. 2, issue 1, 107-116 Abstract: The regional policy represents the expression of the European Union’s solidarity with less developed countries and regions, aiming at reducing the significant economic, social and territorial disparities that still exist between Europe’s regions. Being an investment policy, EU regional policy supports job creation, competitiveness, economic growth, improved quality of life and sustainable development. During the 2014-2020 period, the EU will invest a total of 351 billion euro in Europe's regions. Our analysis aims at highlighting the possible future development for this common policy, in the new Financial European Framework 2014-2020, underling to what extent, the financial instruments of this policy can contribute to boosting less developed countries and regions, concentrating funds on the areas and sectors where they can make the most difference. Also, this article proposes revealing the convergence of the regional policy objectives with those of the Europe 2020 Strategy. Keywords: regional policy; economic and social disparities; Europe 2020 Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ntu:ntugeo:vol2-iss1-14-107 Access Statistics for this article Global Economic Observer is currently edited by Serghei Margulescu and Simona Moagar-Poladian More articles in Global Economic Observer from "Nicolae Titulescu" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Economic Sciences Contact information at EDIRC., Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy |
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