EU REGIONAL POLICY – CONVERGENCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH?

Besides its primary scope of supporting the lagging behind areas, the EU regional policy represents also the flexible companion of other EU objectives and policies: it was reshaped many times in order to meet EU challanges and realities, either these were linked to enlargement or to the organization competitiveness on the world stage. Also, the new architecture of this policy, putting together the concepts of convergence and competitiveness, stands for a great challange concerning its successful implementation and impact.