The present Report offers ideas on how to shape the forthcoming period of Community support beyond the year 2020. The analysis builds on the report "The future of Cohesion policy - Report I" which reflected on the challenges and developments at the local and regional level, focusing mainly on...

The present Report offers ideas on how to shape the forthcoming period of Community support beyond the year 2020. The analysis builds on the report "The future of Cohesion policy - Report I" which reflected on the challenges and developments at the local and regional level, focusing mainly on...

The Committee of the Regions regularly publishes a monitoring report on the development of the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation - EGTC. The present report analyses the latest developments from 2013 and builds on the findings from the earlier EGTC Monitoring Reports of 2010, 2011 and...

The report Future of cohesion policy examines the main issues of debate around the cohesion policy in order to set up the political framework of discussion. Methodologically, this first report is based on an analysis of past debates, predominantly in regional EU fora. Desk-based research was...

The report Future of cohesion policy examines the main issues of debate around the cohesion policy in order to set up the political framework of discussion. Methodologically, this first report is based on an analysis of past debates, predominantly in regional EU fora. Desk-based research was...

The expansion of Cohesion policy (CP) in terms of funds, thematic and geographic scope is quite unique in European policies. €347bn is budgeted to be spent under a management system shared between Member States and the EC during the current 7-year period. CP is often criticised for being...

The 2012 EGTC Monitoring Report is the result of a yearly exercise commissioned by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and carried out in connection with the Platform of the European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC). In line with Regulation (EC) 1082/2006, the Monitoring Report aims to...

The CoR regularly publishes a monitoring report of the development of EGTC as the European legal entity for cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation of public entities. The present report is an update of the EGTC Monitoring Report 2010. The objective of the update is to provide...