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This briefing provides a pre-legislative synthesis of the positions of national, regional and local governmental organisations on the European Commission's initiative on equality bodies, which have been established in every EU Member State to tackle discrimination. It forms part of an EPRS series offering a summary of the pre-legislative state of play and advance consultation on a range of key European Commission priorities during its 5-year term. It seeks to present the state of affairs, to examine ...

Adopted during the 2007 German Presidency of the Council of the EU, the Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities helped establish the concept of integrated urban development at EU level and has been influential in the development of subsequent EU initiatives such as the Urban Agenda. It is currently being updated to take account of this new urban framework and the emerging challenges facing cities, with the new Leipzig Charter due to be adopted at the end of the current German Presidency, in ...

This briefing was prepared to provide information for the visit to Boston (Massachusetts) and Washington, DC from 7 to 11 May 2018 of a delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Regional Development (REGI).

The study compares regional policies of China, Brazil, ASEAN and MERCOSUR with the EU’s Cohesion Policy to inspire the policy debate on its future after 2020. Despite the fact that these countries differ significantly from the EU, they attach great importance to territorial policies and provide useful suggestions. Strategic priorities are supported by flexible territorial concentration and competition rules in their regional policies, and cooperation among regions and administrative capacity building ...

The impact of the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008 is still being felt. In November 2008, the European Commission launched a European Economic Recovery Plan with a view to coordinate Member States’ action in response to the crisis. In this context, the Study uses a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in order to provide an overview of the impact of the crisis across Member States and regions, in terms of economic, social and territorial cohesion, and to assess ...

This note illustrates the crucial contribution of structural and cohesion policies to the "Europe 2020" strategy. It also highlights the role that the Parliament could play in strengthening these policies, which are all subject to the ordinary legislative procedure and will all undergo a far-reaching reform by 2014.

Formålet med denne undersøgelse er at give en kortfattet analyse af det potentielle bidrag, som EU's samhørighedspolitik yder til bekæmpelse af klimaændringer. På baggrund af kvalitativ og kvantitativ sekundær dokumentation (navnlig EU's strukturfondes budget i 2000-2006 og 2007- 2013) og primær kvalitativ dokumentation (to casestudier i Finland og Italien) fremhæves i undersøgelsen den store fremgang, som er sket i anvendelsen af strukturfondene med henblik på at håndtere klimaændringer. Der foreslås ...

Note analysing the current statistical data requested for the Own Initiative Report 'The Consequences of Future Enlargements on the Effectiveness of Cohesion Policy'. It provides theoretical projections on matters such as the allocation of funds to each potential accession country and the statistical effects on GDP per capita in EU Member States.

With Portugal’s and Spain’s entry into the EU the problem of the territories at a considerable distance from the European continent became more significant since it now involved three Member States as opposed to one. The specific problems of these regions are then considered as an EU problem and not just of the respective countries.

It is an analysis of the thinking in the various Member States on the question of the reform of the Structural Funds. It presents questions on the opportunity for reform in structural policy and on the national agreements for change.