Set up initially as an intergovernmental forum to promote cooperation among Arctic states, the Council is failing to adequately accommodate rising interest from outside the region and needs reform, argues, Roderick Kefferpütz.
Poland changed the narrative that presented the EU’s cohesion policy as something from the past that does not provide solutions to today’s problems, says Piotr Serafin.
Paris eyes an extension of €1 billion for 10 French regions that it says are collateral victims of cuts to the EU budget for 2014-2020. EurActiv France reports.
A Bulgarian broadcaster of pop-folk music and videos with often shocking sexually explicit content was selected for a €1-million grant under the EU’s Competitiveness Operative Programme. An outpouring of criticism through social media compelled the Commission to ask the the Bulgarian authorities to open an investigation.
The next long-term budget for the EU must recognise cities’ potential for playing a much greater role in the economic recovery and therefore the urgent priority for investment in urban Europe, writes Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.
The separatist flag of Catalonia – with its yellow and red stripes, blue triangle and white star – was a rare sight on the streets of Barcelona a decade ago. Now, it is almost ubiquitous.
The European Union has frozen about €890 million in aid earmarked for building Polish roads because of a suspected fraud by contractors, a Commission spokeswoman said on Wednesday (30 January).
EXCLUSIVE / Four months after winning the Nobel Peace Prize over its role in reconciling Europe’s warn-torn countries, the European Union, under pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron, is considering rejecting a fund aimed at promoting peace in Northern Ireland, EurActiv has learned.
EXCLUSIVE / Four months after winning the Nobel Peace Prize over its role in reconciling Europe’s warn-torn countries, the European Union, under pressure from British Prime Minister David Cameron, is considering cutting a fund aimed at promoting peace in Northern Ireland, EurActiv has learned.
The European Union has frozen about €890 million in aid earmarked for building Polish roads because of a suspected fraud by contractors, a Commission spokeswoman said on Wednesday (30 January).
The separatist flag of Catalonia – with its yellow and red stripes, blue triangle and white star – was a rare sight on the streets of Barcelona a decade ago. Now, it is almost ubiquitous.
The next long-term budget for the EU must recognise cities’ potential for playing a much greater role in the economic recovery and therefore the urgent priority for investment in urban Europe, writes Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz.
A Bulgarian broadcaster of pop-folk music and videos with often shocking sexually explicit content was selected for a €1-million grant under the EU’s Competitiveness Operative Programme. An outpouring of criticism through social media compelled the Commission to ask the the Bulgarian authorities to open an investigation.
Paris eyes an extension of €1 billion for 10 French regions that it says are collateral victims of cuts to the EU budget for 2014-2020. EurActiv France reports.
With the long-term budget topping the EU agenda, European institutions are emphasising the continent’s regions as the battleground where the economic crisis would be won or lost, yet propose to increase conditions laid on growth-oriented funding.
The 27 EU member states have unanimously approved a €10 billion capital increase into the European Investment Bank (EIB), making good on a June EU summit pledge for a “European Growth Pact” pushed by French President François Hollande.
The EU’s fishing industry could be heading towards ruin without robust regulatory reform, says a new WWF-commissioned study published today (16 October).
MEPs and local NGOs worry that that the European Commission is bypassing civil society and environmental rules as it devises an energy strategy for the Western Balkan region.
Cohesion Policy will be the main public investment instrument for Greece in the foreseeable future, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn told Greek regional governors in Athens. EurActiv Greece contributed reporting for this article.
Unemployment and the economic situation are the main concerns among Europeans at the regional level, relegating environmental concerns to second-tier priority, results of the first regional-level Eurobarometer opinion poll show.
A looming British veto on the EU budget for 2014-2020 could heavily undermine the Union’s efforts to emerge from the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, Brussels analysts warned yesterday (22 October).
Romania has two months to react to a warning from the European Commission, which has identified serious problems in the country’s anti-corruption procedures in the implementation of programmes in the field of transport, regional development and competitiveness, a spokesperson said today (26 October).
Britain will demand changes to the European Union’s regional development funds in budget talks this month, including stripping wealthier nations of access to money intended to help poorer areas, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The European Union risks undermining the credibility of its drive against national budget overshoots if it strips Hungary of structural funds as punishment for running an excessive deficit, a leader of the ruling Fidesz party said.
Leaders of the “Friends of Cohesion” group gathered in Bratislava on Friday (5 October) to discuss tactics ahead of the battle for the EU budget. Commission President José Manuel Barroso said the “Friends of Cohesion” should join the “Friends of Better Spending” in what he called “The Friends of Growth”. EurActiv Slovakia contributed to this article.
Northern European regions are in the lead when it comes to innovation in Europe. But there is a considerable diversity in regional innovation performance not only across European countries, but also within the member states, according to the European Commission’s Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2012, published today (7 November).
A bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania that was financed in part with EU cohesion funds is due to open within a month, although a deal on joint management of the River Danube span has not yet been set up.
EXCLUSIVE / The differences between the initial proposal for the EU’s long-term budget (2014-2020), made by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy last week, and the new version he gave to EU heads of state and government last night, reveal the impact of the bilateral “confessions” held yesterday.
Western and Eastern European governments fighting over some billions less or more to the EU’s next multi-annual budget (2014-2020) would better focus on how to spend this precious resource, writes Miroslav Mojžiš.
German statistics and anecdotal evidence show that far-right groups are more active in regions that were part of the former East Germany. Despite reunification, the eastern regions have remained less developed economically than the western regions, writes Stratfor.
While EU officials in Brussels boast about the proposed simplification of the bloc’s cohesion policy, regional representatives contend that managing EU funds is still very complicated in practice.
A coalition of grape growers, farm groups and major wine-producing countries appear to have won concessions to European Commission proposals for liberalising vine planting rights that are due to expire by 2016.
If the scheduled extraordinary European Council in November does not agree on a framework for the 2014-2020 budget or if the European Parliament denies its approval, the future of the EU will be held hostage to an unstable and unmanageable environment, argues Ivailo Kalfin.
The EU’s budget commissioner has come out strongly in defence of cohesion policy, telling EurActiv France that Europe needed to go beyond austerity measures to support growth in the most deprived regions.
The European Union has spent billions of euros to build roads in sub-Saharan Africa that are left to deteriorate because of poor maintenance, the European Court of Auditors said on Tuesday (15 January).
The 27 EU member states have unanimously approved a €10 billion capital increase into the European Investment Bank (EIB), making good on a June EU summit pledge for a “European Growth Pact” pushed by French President François Hollande.
A coalition of grape growers, farm groups and major wine-producing countries appear to have won concessions to European Commission proposals for liberalising vine planting rights that are due to expire by 2016.
German statistics and anecdotal evidence show that far-right groups are more active in regions that were part of the former East Germany. Despite reunification, the eastern regions have remained less developed economically than the western regions, writes Stratfor.
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EXCLUSIVE / The differences between the initial proposal for the EU’s long-term budget (2014-2020), made by European Council President Herman Van Rompuy last week, and the new version he gave to EU heads of state and government last night, reveal the impact of the bilateral “confessions” held yesterday.
EXCLUSIVE: The differences between the initial proposal for the EU budget 2014-2020 of Council President Herman Van Rompuy made last week and the new version he gave to EU heads of state and government last night reveal the impact of the bilateral “confessions” held yesterday.
Northern European regions are in the lead when it comes to innovation in Europe. But there is a considerable diversity in regional innovation performance not only across European countries, but also within the member states, according to the European Commission’s Regional Innovation Scoreboard 2012, published today (7 November).
A bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania that was financed in part with EU cohesion funds is due to open within a month, although a deal on joint management of the River Danube span has not yet been set up.
Western and Eastern European governments fighting over some billions less or more to the EU’s next multi-annual budget (2014-2020) would better focus on how to spend this precious resource, writes Miroslav Mojžiš.
While EU officials in Brussels boast about the proposed simplification of the bloc’s cohesion policy, regional representatives contend that managing EU funds is still very complicated in practice.
With the long-term budget topping the EU agenda, European institutions are emphasising the continent’s regions as the battleground where the economic crisis would be won or lost, yet propose to increase conditions laid on growth-oriented funding.
The EU’s fishing industry could be heading towards ruin without robust regulatory reform, says a new WWF-commissioned study published today (16 October).
MEPs and local NGOs worry that that the European Commission is bypassing civil society and environmental rules as it devises an energy strategy for the Western Balkan region.
Cohesion Policy will be the main public investment instrument for Greece in the foreseeable future, EU Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn told Greek regional governors in Athens. EurActiv Greece contributed reporting for this article.
Unemployment and the economic situation are the main concerns among Europeans at the regional level, relegating environmental concerns to second-tier priority, results of the first regional-level Eurobarometer opinion poll show.
A looming British veto on the EU budget for 2014-2020 could heavily undermine the Union’s efforts to emerge from the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, Brussels analysts warned yesterday (22 October).
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