By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is … advancements and evaluation reports often do not transparently describe their methodological limitations. As the EU body …

evaluations of EU Cohesion Policies by its Member States (MS). We use large language models quantify the findings of about 2 … analysis suggests that the market of evaluations is rather oligopolistic within MS, that it is very fragmented across the EU … (evidence-based policy). We conclude by discussing reform options to make the evaluations of EU Cohesion Policies more unbiased …

results also point to limits in evaluation culture and methods where evaluations are sometimes just seen as a formalistic …The EU's Cohesion Policy (CP) intends to promote European economic, social, and territorial cohesion. The policy … occupies about a third of the EU budget and it is the most evaluated of all EU policies. With the support of the German …

By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU's Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is … advancements and evaluation reports often do not transparently describe their methodological limitations. As the EU body …

that national differences of the pass-through speed in the EU can be regarded as a retail-oriented indicator of financial …

like the EU deficit limits. The econometric results indicate that the decline is largely due to two developments: First to … privatisation process nor EU deficit restrictions of the Maastricht Treaty can explain the decline. …

not economic necessity have dictated the consolidation in the EU during the 90s. …