DECENTRALISATION AND REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEW COHESION POLICY

The present paper represents an synthesis of the research study Regional Development and Territorial Planning in the Context of the New Cohesion Policy (2014-2020) developed within the "Regional Development in Romania" Priority Programme of National Institute of Economic Research "Costin C. Kiritescu" (2013). The objectives of the research paper are in agreement with current strategic priorities national and community ones. Also, the topics represent the core elements of national and regional debates regarding to importance of decentralization and to the role of regionalization in the current conditions under the incidence of the cohesion policy and globalization. The article intends to analyses synthetically the following aspects: a. the short review of the main models of regional decentralisation within the European Union; b. the main characteristics of the Europe 2020 Strategy; c. the analysis of economic and social disparities at regional level in Romania by making,use of the method of the Gini Struck concentration coefficients.