CAPRON H. and DEBANDE O. (1997) The role of the manufacturing base in the development of private and public services, Reg. Studies 31, 683-695. Although industrial employment has been going down over the last two decades, it is argued in this paper that a solid manufacturing base remains a vital...

En quelque trente ans de politique régionale, l’Union européenne a traversé différentes étapes dans la mise en oeuvre de cette politique tant sur le plan de sa conceptualisation que de ses adaptations aux élargissements successifs. La plus importante de celles-ci est incontestablement la...

During the about thirty years of regional policy, the European Union went through several steps in its implementation as much at the level of its conceptualisation as of its adaptations to the successive enlargements. The most important one was certainly the reform of structural funds realized...