in the literature. Especially issues of bilateral VAT revenue clearing between EU countries, which arise from the …

national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with … regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions, however, the EU contribution has reached 85% of total costs. This … additionality degrees is largely in line with EU cohesion policy goals. Most notably, higher shares of EU funds are provided to …

The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and … employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU … degrees of innovation promotion by the EU from one region to another. Since regional-policy strategies should have been …