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An agenda for a reformed cohesion policy

A place-based approach to meeting European Union challenges and expectations

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There is a consensus that the European Union should modernise its budget, tackling the new challenges and breaking away from bureaucratic inertia and the juste retour logic that hitherto have prevented change. The decision to undertake a budget review has provided the opportunity for doing so. This opportunity is still available. Cohesion policy is part of the review, but there are conflicting views on its rationale, its results, and the need and scope for reform. The risk of wrong changes is high. The risk that no change will take place is also very high. The purpose of this Report is to help avert these risks by setting an agenda for reform and seeking to initiate a frank, informed and timely debate on conceptual, political and operational aspects. A start has been made with the consultation undertaken for preparing the Report.1 On the basis of this consultation, and a review of the economic literature, empirical evidence and a comparative and historical perspective, the Report argues that: there is a strong case, rooted in economic theory and in a political interpretation of the present state of the European Union, for the Union to allocate a large share of its budget to the provision of European public goods through a place-based development strategy aimed at both core economic and social objectives; cohesion policy provides the appropriate basis for implementing this strategy, but a comprehensive reform is needed if present challenges are to be met; the reform requires the adoption of a strong policy concept (renewing the original ideas of EU founding fathers), a concentration of priorities, key-changes of the governance, a new high-level political compromise and an appropriate adjustment of the negotiation process on the budget; current economic and political events have increased the urgency for change: some of the reform proposals can and should be anticipated in the current programme period.
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Katalogo numeris KN-30-12-965-EN-C
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