common. The main driving forces of Europe still remain the same and some rearrangement in the EU-wide strategic targets has … been made. Of course the economic crisis that has emerged forced for a new priority that was set in the "EU 2020" strategy … problems in the implementation of the old strategy? What was the overall outcome of the old strategy in EU Level, in each …

We analyze the influence of newly constructed globalization measures on regional growth for the EU-27 countries between … growth enhancing eff ect accrues from the structural funds expenditures in the EU. …

in the analysis of the convergence process of European Union (EU15) regions by systematically applying a method to … results suggest that convergence pattern of EU regions depends on the spatial scale of analysis and that convergence occurs … within countries at finer scales (NUTS3 level) rather than between EU countries. Furthermore, these findings hold when we …

convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical evidences from the EU history have confirmed this process. Intuitively …, some authors could consider that current crisis seems to affect convergence in EU. Contrary, how our analysis demonstrated … the period of last decade a significant convergence in EU, in matter of GDP per capita. However, differences in matter of …

While European integration has substantially contributed to economic convergence between the member states of the EU …, the gap between rich and poor regions widened in most countries which accessed the EU since 2004. This trend, however …