Download or read book European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation as an Instrument for Promotion and Improvement of Territorial Cooperation in Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation written by Stefanie Dühr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and regional borders. EU policies in areas such as environment, transport, agriculture or regional policy have far-reaching effects on spatial development patterns and planning procedures. Planners in the EU are now routinely engaged in cooperation across national borders to share and devise effective ways of intervening in the way our cities, towns and rural areas develop. In short, the EU has become an important framework for planning practice, research and teaching. Spatial planning in Europe is being ‘Europeanized’, with corresponding changes for the role of planners. Written for students, academics, practitioners and researchers of spatial planning and related disciplines, this book is essential reading for everybody interested in engaging with the European dimension of spatial planning and territorial governance. It explores: spatial development trends and their influence on planning the nature, institutions and actors of the European Union from a planning perspective the history of spatial planning at the transnational scale the planning tools, perspectives, visions and programmes supporting European cooperation on spatial planning the territorial impacts of the Community’s sector policies the outcomes of European spatial planning in practice.

Download or read book The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation EGTC written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) is a new tool, which has been presented by the European Commission on the basis of long-term political actions and proposals coming, among others, from the Committee of the Regions. The EGTC provides a legal framework for territorial cooperation (interregional, cross-border and transnational), where different instruments have been used up until now. REGULATION (EC) No 1082/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 July 2006 on a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation is an EU response to problems that have been identified by programme and project partners. It is also a reaction to pressure from existing cross-border Euroregions and similar structures for a legal instrument capable of providing a strong legal basis for cross-border cooperation. The instrument aims to simplify administration, cooperation and financial control of territorial cooperation in Europe. Regulation (EC) no. 1082/2006 establishes an important legal instrument to strengthen cooperation between regional and local authorities and constitutes an important step towards establishing the right of local and regional authorities to cooperate across national borders. It offers a structure, stability and certainty for territorial cooperation. This new instrument for territorial cooperation has however been established at a time when Cohesion policy in general and territorial cooperation in particular are undergoing significant changes. In the 2007-2013 programming period a significant increase of territorial cooperation within Cohesion policy (e.g. through mainstreaming of the Interreg initiative; a stronger Lisbon and Gothenburg orientation etc.) can be observed. -- EU Bookshop.

Download or read book Uncovering the Territorial Dimension of European Union Cohesion Policy written by Eduardo Medeiros and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the non-territorialised strategic goals of the EU 2020 Strategy, the long-term aim of EU Cohesion Policy to promote harmonious development of the European territory – social, economic, and ‘territorial cohesion’ – remains a central goal of achieving a more cohesive EU territory. This book examines the ‘territorial dimension’ of EU Cohesion Policy, specifically assessing territorial impacts at the various spatial levels, engaging theoretically and empirically with the notion and role of the ‘territorial dimension’ within a strongly fragmented EU policymaking process, and examining more generally EU Cohesion Policy, as the main driver of the EU territorial development process. It provides an updated and fresh theoretical discussion on the precise meaning of the ‘territorial dimension’ of policies and the relatively recent EU policy evaluation technique, known as ‘Territorial Impact Assessment’ (TIA). Assessing the history, relevance, efficiency and effectiveness of these procedures, it presents several empirical findings on the implementation of specific territorial-focus and place-based financial instruments, as part of the Territorial Agendas and the EU goal of achieving a more integrated, territorial approach. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of spatial planning and cohesion policy, European sector policies and European spatial planning, and more broadly to European and EU studies/politics, regional economic geography and public policy.

Download or read book European Territorial Cooperation written by Eduardo Medeiros and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills an existing academic literature gap by providing a sound and synthetic analysis on the process of European Territorial Cooperation over the last 30 years. This follows from the support from the former EU INTERREG Community Initiative, since 1989, later transformed into the second main goal of EU Cohesion Policy, by 2007: European Territorial Cooperation - ECT. In order to present the ECT process in a more comprehensive manner, and to be the main literature reference regarding this process in the decades to come, this book is divided into four different sections and 12 chapters. The first section summarizes the main impacts and added-value from ETC experiences while proposing the elevation of the ETC goals within EU Cohesion Policies. The second section addresses the process of cross-border cooperation, and namely its impact in reducing border obstacles and supporting ever growing number of cross-border entities. The third section elaborates on the second most important ETC process (transnational cooperation) with a similar approach. Finally, a last section debates the future scenarios for this process in Europe.

Download or read book European Democratic Institutions and Administrations written by Francesco Merloni and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies. The collected studies describe and analyse the measures (often referred to as "reforms") adopted to counter the crisis and the effects of these measures.It investigates three areas: the impact on the functioning of institutions, with respect to the relationship between representative institutions and governments, and the organisational structure of administrations at national and local levels; the impact that the austerity policies on public spending have on social rights; and the impact on traditional instruments of public action (administrative simplification, public services delivering, the use of common assets).The general findings highlight the effect of reducing the administrative and government capacity of the democratic institutions: the public sector, rather than being innovative and made more effective, declines, offering increasingly poor public services and making bad decisions, fuelling substantive or formal privatisation solutions, which in turn cause further weakening.

Download or read book From Territorial Cohesion to the New Regionalized Europe written by Luisa Pedrazzini and published by Maggioli Editore. This book was released on 2011 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Territorial Cohesion written by Dietmar Scholich and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-11-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Territorial cohesion" strives for a more balanced spatial development and seeks to improve integration throughout the EU. The scientific articles in this volume examine the interpretations of this term, the challenges of European spatial development policy, and the problems and concepts involved in achieving territorial cohesion. Two short reports illustrate the implementation of territorial cohesion on the basis of two research projects.

Download or read book Joint Public Procurement and Innovation written by Gabriella Margherita Racca and published by Bruylant. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation in public procurement is essential for sustainable and inclusive growth in an increasingly globalized economy. To achieve that potential, both the promises and the perils of innovation must be investigated, including the risks and opportunities of joint procurement across borders in the European Union and the United States. This in-depth research investigates innovation in public procurement from three different perspectives. First, leading academics and practitioners assess the purchase of innovation, with a particular focus on urban public contracting in smart cities involving meta-infrastructures, public-private partnership arrangements and smart contracts. A second line of inquiry looks for ways to encourage innovative suppliers. Here, the collected authors draw on emerging lessons from the US and Europe, to explore both the costs and the benefits of spurring innovation through procurement. A third perspective looks to various innovations in the procurement process itself, with a focus on the effects of joint and cross-border procurement in the EU and US landscapes. The chapters review new technologies and platforms, the increasingly automated means of selecting suppliers, and the related efficiencies that “big data” can bring to public procurement. Expanding on research in the editors’ prior volume, Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts: Balancing Corruption Concerns in Public Procurement Internationally (Bruylant 2014), this volume builds on a series of academic conferences and exchanges to address these issues from sophisticated academic, institutional and practical perspectives, and to point the way to future research on the contractual models that are emerging from new procurement technologies.

Download or read book The European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation EGTC written by Valérie Biot and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Governance has since long been a real challenge for the European Union (COM (2001) 428 final) White Paper on European Governance). With the inclusion of territorial cohesion in the EU Treaty (Lisbon Treaty, 2009), territorial governance was also acknowledged as a major issue at stake (Barca report on Cohesion policy reform, 2009; CoR 89/2009fin, White Paper on multilevel governance). Territorial governance can be understood in two ways: governance of territories (how is a territory organised) and/or territorial dimension of governance (referring to wider understanding of governance, and how this larger perspective integrates the territorial dimension - or not)(ESPON 2006, report 2 3 2 on territorial governance). Both includes at least two aspects: a)the legal, institutional and juridical framework in which it takes places, b) the governance organisation based on more informal grounds. In this paper we want to investigate those different paths, with a focus on the new European juridical tool to organise territorial cooperation: the European grouping for territorial cooperation (EC1082/2006), and in particular which potential this instrument provides for a better governance on the EU territory. Elaborating further on our work for TERCO report (ESPON 2013) we will first concentrate - through desk research - on the current implementation of European grouping for territorial cooperation, which illustrate a large range of governance arrangements: in this case, we analyse at a certain moment how cooperation operates in different contexts in all EU, mainly on crossborder territories(current EGTCs settled are in large majority crossborder cooperation). In a second step, we will investigate more in depth - using the result of long interviews with major relevant stakeholders from the area - the governance of the French/Belgium border territory, from the North sea until the Lille- Kortrijk-Tournai (LIKOTO) Eurometropole . The cooperation in this area - which is now organised through two EGTCS, has a long history, and is extremely interesting to analyse as it shows an evolution both in time, in scale, in objectives, in partners involved and in governance arrangements: in this case, we follow one area of cooperation along a time scale of three decades. From this analysis, we will then provide some territorial governance 'toolbox', having in mind that 'one size does not fit all' (Barca, id), and that our hypothesis is that there is no universal - neither European - 'best model' of governance.

Download or read book Impacts of European Territorial Policies in the Baltic States written by Garri Raagmaa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-independence at the beginning of the 1990s. Meanwhile, urban and regional planning institutions and organizational cultures in the Baltic States have only changed rather incrementally, despite various national and European pressures for reform. As a consequence, the effects of European cohesion and structural policy measures have been quite modest, and the ability of the planning systems in the Baltic states to manage contemporary trends in urban and regional development has become increasingly limited. This book focuses on these issues and tensions of spatial planning and development in the Baltic States and their distinctiveness compared to other European countries. It provides an overview of the historical and cultural context of spatial development, a discussion of the processes of Europeanization of spatial planning in the specific context of the Baltic States, and an analysis of whether these processes may be leading to policy convergence in the region. This book was published as a special issue of European Planning Studies.

Download or read book Security and Cross border Cooperation in the EU the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus written by Ayça Ergun and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceeding of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Security and Cross/Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus, Ankara, Turkey, 23-24 September 2011"--Title page verso.

Download or read book Structural Policies and European Territory written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Europe 2000 written by Commission of the European Communities and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation EGTC written by Great Britain. Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Participation of Entities of Outside the EU in the European Groupings for Territorial Cooperation written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book European Public Diplomacy written by Mai'a K. Davis Cross and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the various aspects of Europe's multi-leveled public diplomacy form a coherent overall image, or do they work against each other to some extent? European Public Diplomacy pushes the literature on public diplomacy forward through a multifaceted exploration of the European case.