Cohesion Policy in the European Union The Building of Europe

by Leonardi, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781403949554
• ISBN10: 1403949557
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume assesses the implementation of the EU's cohesion policy and the role that the policy has in stimulating ten new member states from eastern and southern European countries to join the EU in 2004 and in attracting another three to four countries that will join in the near future.

Author Biography

Robert Leonardi is Jean Monnet Senior Lecturer in the European Institute Department at the London School of Economics.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	viii
List of Tables	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Preface: by Romano Prodi	xii
Chapter 1 Cohesion and Regional Policies in the European Union	1	(32)
Chapter 2 The CSF Revolution: The Origins and Structure of EU Cohesion Policy	33	(34)
Chapter 3 Cohesion Policy as Learning: The Planning Process and Administrative Responses	67	(22)
Chapter 4 Have Regions Converged? Sigma and Beta Convergence in Objective 1 and Other EU Regions between 1988 and 1999	89	(18)
Chapter 5 Is the Italian Mezzogiorno in Line with Other Objective 1 Regions in Europe?	107	(33)
Chapter 6 The Challenge of Enlargement and Cohesion in the Ten New Member States	140	(33)
Chapter 7 Conclusions: The Constitutionalization of the European Union and the Future of Cohesion Policy	173	(18)
Notes	191	(21)
Index	212