The present global crisis began in 2007 in the USA. It affected all economies of the world during 2008-2010. Our research deals with the idea of a new paradigm for the European cohesion policy in order to limit and to decrease the regional disparities across the Member States. The paper uses the...

Since their accession to the EU in 2004 the Baltic States have been integrated into the multi-level system of the EU. A common assumption is that the inclusion of unitary states into the EU structure increases regionalisation or at least decentralisation. However, in the case of the Baltic...