future of eu funding for eon
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What’s Up In Brussels?
Kevin Richardson
Fabrizio BarcaGeneral Director for DevelopmentMinistry of Economy and Finance, Italy
Behind the Headlines? (1)
• New position of EU Parliament / greater use of co-decision
• The capacity issue of managing multi level governance between and within 27 + Member States; inc departmentalism with EU COM
• Administrative regions? Or macro-regions? (Baltic, Danube, North Sea) or functional economic areas?
• Managing accession? (Croatia, Iceland, Macedonia, Turkey). Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, & Ukraine)
Behind the Headlines (2)?
• Centripetal forces of € / Long term challenge to CAP & Rural Development
• Redistribution (Art 174) or building agglomeration? (density, distance & divisions) (see World Development Report 2009)
• Is it only about growth? (GDP per capita PPS at NUTS 2)
• From (failed) Lisbon Strategy (see Kok) to fundamental challenges of Europe 2020 (ageing, migration, energy, environment, climate change, education, & child poverty)
• Grants or loans? (ever wider role for EIB?) Building conditionality into programming (macro and programming)
Towards 2014?
• Draft Regulations. July ’11?
• Providing the details of the ‘big shift’ in the UK position?
• What role for local government in shaping the new programmes?
• How best to deal with the urban & rural questions?
• What hope for an integrated approach and what implications of 40+ LEPs?
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