Topics: Regional growth disparities; Sustainable economic development (energy and environmental issues); Financial crisis and regional disparities; Impact of structural funds on regional convergence; Knowledge-based economy and regional competitiveness; Regional models and forecasts; Regional...

The conference aims to assess how membership to the euro area has affected countries’ experience of the financial crisis and the recession; the issues facing recent and prospective entrants to the euro area; and the future of the euro area in terms of monetary-fiscal policy coordination,...