Perspective of the Future EU Cohesion Policy in Terms of Visegrad Group

At the end of EU programming period 2007-2013and with respect to important challenges that European states have to face in future, the preparations of a new form of EU Cohesion policy after 2013 have culminate at European and national level. The current state of the preparations clearly shows that EU Cohesion policy after 2013 will play an important and essential role in strengthening of cohesion, restoring of prosperity and competitiveness of the European territory, although the attitude of individual EU Member States is no uniform in selected policy aspects. The main aim of the paper is to analyze and present the main themes of EU Cohesion policy reform after 2013, with regard to the attitude of the Visegrad Group.