Serbia's EU integration has gained momentum after political change in 2000. From that point, numerous EU initiatives have been employed to facilitate the country's legal, economic and political change in order to prepare it for (potential) EU membership. The cornerstone of the relations between...

In this paper we would like to draw attention on the fact how important for the absorption of the EU funds might be each country's or region's split of its financial portfolio between EU, national and private sources of co-financing. Based on data from the Ex-Post Evaluation 1994-99, this paper...