A snapshot of Western Balkan’s agriculture from the perspective of EU accession
The Western Balkan countries can be characterised by their shared goal, which is rapid accession to the EU. Agriculture is...
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Factors of population decline in rural areas and answers given in EU member states’ strategies
One of the most pressing phenomena in recent decades in Europe’s rural areas is population decline. This article summarises how...
Cohesion Policy for rural areas after 2013. A rationale derived from the EDORA project (European Development Opportunities in Rural Areas) – ESPON 2013 Project 2013/1/2
The starting point of the EDORA project was the recognition that, rather than becoming more uniform in character, rural Europe...
With ‘Regional Territorial Agendas’ towards territorial cohesion? The emergence of supra-regional coalitions in Europe and their future role in Cohesion Policy
This paper focuses on current trends of regionalisation with supra-regional coalitions emerging in Europe. In the context of further European...
Conceptualising ‘macro-regions’: Viewpoints and tools beyond NUTS classification
Definitions are imposed but properties not. The basic question addressed by this paper is how to ‘detect’ objective socio-economic spatial...
Rural Europe 2+2+: A conceptual framework for a rural employment policy
The four main ways in which rural employment creation can be grounded on the exploitation of natural capital can be...
The role of broadband developments fi nanced from EU Structural Funds in the enhancement of regional cohesion in the NMS-10
This paper examines if broadband Internet access (‘broadband’) developments enhance regional cohesion in ten New Member States (NMS-10) of the...
Rural areas development as a field of intervention of the European Union Cohesion Policy after 2013
Sustainable rural development is one of the social, economic and territorial cohesion aspects of the European Union. In the current...
The convergence process of the European regions: the role of Regional Policy and the Common Agricultural Policy
The study investigates the convergence of labour productivity in 204 NUTS2 regions of the EU-15 between 1995 and 2006. The...
The impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on the agro-food sector of Central and Eastern European and Central Asian countries
This paper assesses the impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on the agro-food sector of Central and Eastern...