European Union Regional Policy

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This paper discusses some of the inequalities found within the European Union (EU) at the internal level and among opportunity between its different regions. It focuses on the potential benefits of setting up of a regional policy in order to help transfer resources from the rich to the poor areas. The paper discusses how the regional policy will be set up, its goals and how its goals will be achieved.

From the Paper:

"A broadly held view holds that regional planning in Europe has developed within very distinctive legal and administrative frameworks i.e. British, Napoleonic, Germanic, Scandinavian and East European. In most of the Continental Europe especially within the Federal states there is a view that local and regional authorities possesses a general power over the affairs of their communities, in the United Kingdom notwithstanding the requirement to provide public services on a local degree as agents of central governments. The responsibility to do such is dependent on the concept of basic structure in case of local authority is powers conferred upon it by the centre."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Balchin, Paul; Sykora, Ludek; Bull, Gregory. 1999. The Regional Policy and Planning in Europe. Routledge.
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