European Union provides financial support to the Member States through various financial tools currently from European Structural and Investment Funds that represent the main instrument of EU Cohesion Policy to sustain territorial development, to increase competitiveness and to eliminate...

“One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.”[Professor Johan Galtung, Norwegian sociologist] The EU represents a unique economic and political partnership, formally...

The tourism, as main component of national, as well as of the global economy, could not but be affected by the present financial crisis, already seen as an economic one. The effects of the worldwide crisis put their fingerprints on both components of the tourism, the demand as well as the...

The assistance from the EU funds is a contribution to Lithuanian economic development, upturn in the economy, better quality of life and it plays the significant role for the environmental protection. The project is the main measure for using the EU support. The EU financed projects management...

The fundamental objective of the EU regional policy is to reduce differences in development between regions in Europe. EU is directing structural funds to the regions which need help, and in that way EU helps to raise the level of employment and living standards. Financing is based on 4 main...

The paper contains data and information taken from the work "MODERN FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE EUROPEAN UNUION USED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEW ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CHALLENGES", scientific research detailed study based on the current economic and financial aspects of the national and European...

Cohesion Fund threw environmental conservation and transport infrastructure helps to diminish social and economic differences between our country and more developed European Union countries, also helps to preserve and achieve highest standards of environmental quality. Cohesion Fund was...

Solidarity among the citizens of the European Union, economic and social development as well as cohesion are declared objectives stated in Amsterdam Treaty; their accomplishment should be assured by the states – members owing to implementing European regional policy financed by the Structural...

In this paper we consider the experience of transport and environmental evaluation in the framework of the Cohesion Fund, established by the EU in 1993 to co-finance through grants infrastructure projects in Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece, and more recently in the new Member States. We...