Within the context of the European Semester the EU Member States (MS) have delivered their National Reform Programmes (NRP) in April 20161. The programmes are based on the priorities defined by the European Commission (EC) in the Annual Growth Survey. According to the Committee of the Regions...

Investments with a genuine cross-border dimension are often challenging ventures: obvious border crossing investments are infrastructure networks but there are many other facilities and infrastructure elements where a cross-border approach bears significant potentialities be it: - in terms of...

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 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 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...

EGTCs are instruments for cooperation which offer a range of options in Multi-Level-Governance (MLG) and might act as ambassadors in external cooperation in order to develop approaches for joint policy-making. One of the prime raison-d'être of EGTCs is cooperation at the sub-national, i.e. the...

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...