The study explores how enlargement would affect the Cohesion Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy areas with a deep impact on local and regional authorities, as well as the allocation of European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) at regional and local level. Taking into account three...

The main aim of the contract is a preparation of an overview of capacity building programmes and technical assistance currently offered to local and regional authorities (LRAs) in the Eastern Partnership countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The note...

This brochure gathers information on the European Union (EU) financial assistance available in the form of programmes, instruments, and other financing opportunities to local and regional authorities (LRAs) in candidate and potential candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina [BiH],...

This brochure gathers information on the European Union (EU) financial assistance available in the form of programmes, instruments, and other financing opportunities to local and regional authorities (LRAs) in candidate and potential candidate countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina [BiH],...

The objective of the study is to provide background information, as well as basic facts and figures, to support the CORLEAP co-chair rapporteur's work on the report "The role and place of local democracy and decentralisation in the modernisation and consolidation of democratic processes in the...

Belarusian economy has been stagnating in 2011-2015 after 15 years of a high annual average growth rate. In 2015, after four years of stagnation, the Belarusian economy slid into a recession, its first since 1996, and experienced both cyclical and structural recessions. Since 2015, the...