By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is … advancements and evaluation reports often do not transparently describe their methodological limitations. As the EU body …

evaluations of EU Cohesion Policies by its Member States (MS). We use large language models quantify the findings of about 2 … analysis suggests that the market of evaluations is rather oligopolistic within MS, that it is very fragmented across the EU … (evidence-based policy). We conclude by discussing reform options to make the evaluations of EU Cohesion Policies more unbiased …