The urban and regional dimension of Europe 2020. Seventh progress report on economic, social and territorial cohesion

02/05/2013

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European Union
01/01/2011
Anglais
Aménagement du territoire, Urbanisme, Paysage, Patrimoine, Logement
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Europe
  • This progress report assesses how, in the context of cohesion policy, regions and cities can contribute to three types of growth of the Europe 2020 strategy. It measures the distance of cities and regions to the national 2020 targets proposed in the national reform programmes. This distance to target depends on the disparities with the country, the ambition of the NRP and expected speed of change. This analysis does not imply that all regions can or should reach all their national or the EU targets. For some regions, the distance to the target is simply too great. Furthermore, for some issues it is not realistic or desirable that all regions reach the same target. For example, R&D is highly concentrated in part due to benefits of clustering research. The concentration of poverty and exclusion, however, has a lot of negative effects. In short, cohesion policy programmes should select their investment priorities taking into account the starting position of a region or city in relation to the national 2020 targets and identify the concentrations to promote and the ones to fight

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