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The European structural funds under discussion

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  1. Reasons for structural reform do not result from the coming round of enlargement and the foreseeable end of the current funding phase. but from the structural change within the economy itself-such as the internationalisation and globalisation of decision-making within the economy, decentralisation and regionalism. Although these trends will have a big influence on the structural development of Europe, they are not entered into in depth here. Cf: European Commission: European Regional Development Concept. On the way to a balanced and sustainable tainable development of the European Union, Luxembourg 1999.

  2. European Commission: Second Interim Report on Economic and Social Cohesion, p.11.

  3. Ibid. European Commission: Second Interim Report on Economic and Social Cohesion, p.14.

  4. A GDP per inhabitant of 75% of the EU-15 average will, after enlargement, be equivalent to 83% of the EU-25 average. Cf. Markus Eitges: Die Auswirkungen der EU-Osterweiterung auf die europäische Struktorpolitik, in: WSI-Mitteilunge, No. 1, 2003, p.14.

  5. In Germany, only Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt and Chemnitz in Saxony would remain below the 75% limit in the EU-25. European Commission: Second interim report …, op.cit., Table 5(b).

  6. Cf. inter alia Jan Priewe: Ostdeutschland 2010-Perspektiven der Investitionstätigkeit, Deutschland 2002, pp.27–34

  7. Cf. the discussion in Bernd Reissert: European Framework Conditions for German Structural Policy, and in Frank Gerlach, Astrid Ziegler: The Future of Structural Policy, Maarburg 2003 (forthcoming)

  8. Individual proposals on the form and structure of future European structural policy wer persented by, amongst others, the Federal German Government, the Minister Presidents of the Bundesländer, the east German Läder, the Standing Conference of Ministers for Economic Affairs and the Land of Berlin.

  9. Cf. among others. European Commission. Second Internal sport. European Commission: Second Interim Report on Economic and Social Cohesion, op. cit: Astria Ziegier Synopse wichtqer Postionen us Frank Gerlach, Astrid Ziegler op. cit The Future of Structural Policy, Maarburg 2003 (forthcoming)

  10. Cf. among others European Commission, ibid and Astract 2 gler. ibid European Commission: Second Interim Report on Economic and Social Cohesion, p. 11.

  11. European Commission: Structural Policy Measures 2000–2006. Comments and Directives, Luxembourg 2000. p. 33

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Ziegler, A. The European structural funds under discussion. Intereconomics 38, 305–310 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02914020

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