The Blue Economy businesses consulted in gathering Lessons Learned have had some success - with varying experiences - in attracting external funding and offer valuable fundraising lessons that can inform the development and implementation of the investment platform. For businesses consulted,...

The political backdrop of this analysis is provided by the Committee of the Regions (CoR) proposal of a Code of conduct for the involvement of the local and regional authorities in the European Semester1 and by the territorial analyses of the 2017 Country Reports and 2016 Country-specific...

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...

E-Cohesion requirements as outlined in Article 122(3) of the draft Common Provisions Regulation for the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds programme period aim at reducing the administrative burden for beneficiaries of Cohesion Policy. This study looks at the e-Cohesion options...

E-Cohesion requirements as outlined in Article 122(3) of the draft Common Provisions Regulation for the 2014-2020 European Structural and Investment Funds programme period aim at reducing the administrative burden for beneficiaries of Cohesion Policy. This study looks at the e-Cohesion options...

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...