Does the EU Regional Policy reinforce the European citizenship?

Integration of services and the European Union: does EU policy make sense?

What is gradually becoming clear in all countries of the European Union is, that integration of services is more and more urgently needed in order to deal with the changing needs and demands of the ageing European citizens. Everywhere in Europe older people are more and more faced with smaller social networks, growing dependency, less mobility and psycho-geriatric syndromes. Such problems canno...

Analyzing the European Union citizenship through feminist perspectives

The European Union has aspired to create an “ever closer union” among its people since the articulation of the European Union citizenship has been an important instrument towards it. However, attempts at creating this “ever closer union” have focused on homogenizing European citizens as a single entity without taking into account the heterogeneous differentials among such citizens. Gender diffe...

Effects of EU Regional Policy : 1989 - 2013 ∗

We analyze EU Regional Policy during four programming periods: 1989-1993, 1994-1999, 2000-2006, 2007-2013. When looking at all periods, we focus on the growth, employment and investment effects of Objective 1 treatment status. For the two later periods, we additionally look at the effects of the volume of EU transfers, overall and in sub-categories, on various outcomes. We also analyze whether ...

European Innovation Policy through the European Regional Development Fund

Energy policy : European , national , regional ?