This article examines the role and use of discourse as a means of affecting EU cohesion
policy reform. A discursive shift is traced to a place-based narrative, which sought to re …

This Handbook covers all major aspects of EU Cohesion policy, one of the most significant
areas of intervention of the European Union. Over five parts, It discusses this policy's history …

This paper examines the role and importance of the territorial dimension of EU Cohesion
Policy, during its five programming phases (1989‑2020), by relating this implementation …

Cohesion Policy is the main investment policy of the European Union (EU), supporting the
development of regions since the end of the 1980s. Besides its relevant impact on …

This article traces the emergence of a new “experimentalist governance architecture” in EU
Cohesion policy and assesses its effectiveness. Following trends in other EU policy areas …

Far from reopening classic debates on EU modes of governance, this special issue uses the
governance notion as an organizing concept in order to examine the governing of the EU in …

The purpose of this paper is to analyse who controls the implementation of EU cohesion
policy. The main argument is that EU control mechanisms are weak and that the goals …

Executive summary The main purpose of this note is to facilitate the process of strengthening
the territorial dimension of the‗ Europe 2020 'strategy and other EU and national policies …

This paper argues that the European Commission is increasingly concerned with the
question of “who benefits?” from cohesion policy, and that it is therefore developing efforts …

One of the major challenges for EU Cohesion Policy is that, after 25 years of implementing
the policy, the evidence for its effectiveness is so inconclusive. Academic research and …