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Coordination is a persistent regional policy challenge. The current focus on joined-up policy making spanning sectors, institutions and a range of socio-economic challenges further emphasises the need for coordination. But how can policy makers ‘pull things together’ in the face of conflicting policy goals, competing interests and power struggles between different levels of government? Why…
Is EU Cohesion Policy equipped to help cities face increasing development challenges? Urban areas are the locus of some of Europe’s most persistent economic, social and environmental problems but also a key source of innovative policy solutions. The intensity and complexity of challenges facing these areas will be more pressing in the future and finding…
2019 marked the start of Europe’s ambition to become the world’s first climate-neutral continent. Renewable energy use is rapidly growing and decarbonisation is now at the core of national energy policy strategies. The phase-out of fossil fuels particularly affects coal-producing regions and has put energy transition firmly on the regional policy agenda. In line with…
EU Competition Policy control of regional aid is in an interregnum. In a policy area which is often contentious because it constrains domestic support for business, the Commission is pondering reforms to State aid control against the backdrop of wider EU priorities in its ‘budget for the future’. There is, however, currently no ‘grand plan’ for…