EU Cohesion Policy in Practice

EU Cohesion policy, along with support for agriculture and rural development, is one of the main items of EU spending. As such, the performance of the policy has come under increasing scrutiny. Perhaps surprisingly, however, past attempts to assess the effectiveness of the EU’s have proved to be highly ambivalent.

This book examines the long-term achievements of Cohesion policy from 1989 to 2012 an...