After less than two years from its accession to the EU, Romania was seriously hit by the global financial and economic … economic activities, etc. The crisis has generated difficulties for the beneficiaries of the EU-funded projects - both local … to adopt a series of measures meant to support the implementation of the on-going Operational Programmes and the EU funds …

European Union (EU), from the perspective of their productive systems. We propose to focus the analysis on Slovakia and four … comparable with the EU NUTS 2 regions. The mentioned Spanish regions are also NUTS 2 regions. They are similar to Slovakia in …

-patent networks, project based R&D networks within the EU Framework Programmes (FPs) and co-publication networks. Integration in … European R&D - one of the main pillars of the EU Science Technology and Innovation (STI) policy - refers to the harmonization … achieved by using 255 NUTS-2 regions of the 25 pre-2007 EU member-states, as well as Norway and Switzerland. For the …

The competitiveness of EU regions This paper results from the project financed by the Grant Agency of the Czech … index defined for this purpose, assesses the competitiveness of EU regions on the NUTS II level. The regional …

within a national territory, are defined differently on EU level than in Croatia, where counties are far too small to be … considered as regions in EU terms. The implementation of European regional policy requires "comparability" of territories, which …) and North-Western Croatia including the capital city of Zagreb. These regions are now acceptable for EU regional policy …

delay due to the fact that most of them is financed form the EU funds which must be implemented until 2015; 2) Euro 2012 …

European Cohesion Policy and Structural Funds are one of the main instruments of intervention of EU authorities, so it is being …