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Description of EU Cohesion Policy After Enlargement

EU Cohesion Policy after Enlargement presents the first major comparative study of EU Cohesion policy after the May 2004 enlargement and the 2006 Cohesion policy reform. Enlargement and the 2006 reform represent the biggest challenge to EU Cohesion policy since 1988 and raise important questions about how cohesion policy is being implemented in the 2007-13 programming period. Using a balanced selection of case studies from both old and new member states (Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and Greece; Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania and Romania), this book examines the implementation of Cohesion policy in an enlarged and increasingly differentiated EU. Among the key issues it addresses are how old member states are adjusting to reduced levels of funding and the new Lisbon Agenda-orientation of Cohesion policy, and how new member states that joined in 2004 and 2007 are performing in implementing Cohesion policy.

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ISBN:

9780230524729

Pages:

320 pages

Format:

Hardback

Product Code:

276853

Publisher:

Palgrave MacMillan

Published:

31/10/2008

Edition:

illustrated edition

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About Michael J. Baun (Editor) and Dan Marek (Editor)

MICHAEL BAUN is Marguerite Langdale Pizer Professor of International Politics at Valdosta State University, USA. He has published widely on the EU and European politics, including several journal articles on EU cohesion policy. He is co-editor with Katja Weber and Michael E. Smith of Governing Europe's Neighborhood: Partners or Periphery? DAN MAREK is Jean Monnet Lecturer in European Politics in the Department of Politics and European Studies, Palacku University, Czech Republic. He is the author of several books and numerous articles published in journals such as the Journal of Common Market Studies and Regional and Federal Studies.