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Region: Economics and Sociology

2014 year, number 1

Modernization Aspects of Regional Policy in Central and Eastern Europe in the Context of EU Changes

Gyula Horvath
Institute of Regional Studies, Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pecs, Hungary
Keywords: European Union, countries of the Eastern and Central Europe, regional policy, competitiveness, subsidiarity, decentralization, regional powers

Abstract

The paper analyzes the experience of structural and cohesion policies pursued by the countries of the Eastern and Central Europe during their membership in the European Union. We can state that the countries - new members of the EU - displayed the increased economic, social, and infrastructural disparities. The paper considers the factors of the lowered effectiveness of regional policies such as the point of institutional equilibrium in regional policy, inevitable transboundery cooperation, and management of development plans as they are important for the purpose of coming planning for 2014-2020. The conclusion is to change factors of regional development means to change regional policies, their goals, tools, and institutions with safeguarding national interests.