By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … advancements and evaluation reports often do not transparently describe their methodological limitations. As the EU body … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation …

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 …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

spillovers strongest in non-euro EU countries and weakest in non-EU East European countries. Interestingly, we find … differentiated strength of spillovers to Russia compared to other non-EU East European countries, which we attribute to its fixed …