Les structures régionales des pays candidats à l'Union européenne sont-elles compatibles avec les fonds structurels? Cette étude a été demandée par la commission de la politique régionale, des transports et du tourisme du Parlement européen dans le cadre du Plan de travail STOA 2001.

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This paper analyses regional growth in eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. It aims to identify the factors behind growth and to investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...

Studies of EU conditionality assume a power asymmetry between the Commission and the CEECs over the adoption of the acquis, and at the macro level of democratisation and marketisation, rather than tracking clear causal relationships in policies. The article employs regional policy and...