Sharon Dijksma argues that more #centralisation will drive people away from the European project.
More participation and engagement is the recipe to keep #Europe democratic.
#CohesionForum

Is centralisation more efficient? Emil Boc replies that he comes from a post-Communist country. He knows what #centralisation means.
Carole Delga agrees: more centralisation will paralyse Europe.
Strong debates at the
#CohesionForum

There is a strong citizen demand to improve quality of life. But, according to Carole Delga at the #CohesionForum , that cannot be achieved by more agglomeration. We need a stronger and more sustainable connectivity between #cities and their surrounding areas.

You develop not when your poor own cars, but when your rich use public transport.
Wise words by Emil Boc at the #CohesionForum .

Regions that fall into a #DevelopmentTrap are breeding considerable discontent against the European project.
This #discontent represents a serious risk to our way of life and our sources of prosperity.
Simona Iammarino 🇪🇺's stark warning to the #CohesionForum
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A considerable number of regions in the #EU are in a #DevelopmentTrap .
They underperform in income, employment & productivity relative to their national and EU peers & to themselves in the past.
Striking map by Simona Iammarino 🇪🇺 at the #CohesionForum .
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We will not be able to pursue our common European objectives without a budget that allows the #EU to face the many challenges ahead, stresses younous omarjee at the #CohesionForum .

#Cohesion funds are needed to keep the citizens of current Members States on board and prevent the rise of discontent.
Without them, achieving the missions of the EU will become much more difficult.
Enrico Letta on Cohesion Policy at the #Cohesion Forum.
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We are all richer in #Europe because successive enlargements of the #EU have been a success.
Let's make the future enlargement another success, says Enrico Letta at the #CohesionForum
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#Cohesion is far too important for Europe's future to be left to Cohesion Policy alone, says Elisa Ferreira at the #Cohesion Forum
Synergies need to be built with other policies to build a more competitive, cohesive, innovative & greener
#Europe .
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To make the #EU more dynamic, it needs to tackle not just low #development across its regions. Lack of dynamism -represented by persistent #DevelopmentTraps in many parts of Europe- is also undermining the potential of the whole of the EU. #CohesionForum
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#Cohesion Policy works!
It has helped navigate successive #enlargements , reducing the percentage of #Europeans living in less developed countries from 25% of the total to just 5%.
Elisa Ferreira kicking off the
#Cohesion Forum.
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Many regions caught in a #DevelopmentTrap lack a clear vision for achieving future dynamism and progress. As a consequence, these traps are just not solely economic issues; they are increasingly becoming potent sources of political #discontent .
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New WP 🚀 'Fueling the Fire? How Government Support Drives Technological Progress and Complexity' by Carolin Nast, Doris Entner, and me. We show that #US government support has accelerated #innovation and steered it toward more #complex #technologies . econ.geo.uu.nl/peeg/peeg2407.…

Interested in doing a #PhD after your MSc? And do you want to do it in the most amazing academic and natural environment?
Two PhD Fellowships in #Innovation and #Regional Studies at the UiS School of Business, Department of Innovation.
Deadline: April 15.
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Want to learn everything about regional #development and #policy ?
And do you want to do it in the most amazing surroundings?
Look no further than the 2024 Summer School in #Split , #Croatia .
Organised by the Faculty of Economics, Business & Tourism.
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The rise in #inequality is key to explain #populism .
It is therefore surprising that comparative analyses of how and to what extent differences in both interpersonal and interterritorial inequality drive anti-sytem voting remain rare.
We provide one here:
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#Cohesion Policy needs to address the three main structural challenges facing the #EU : low #development ; long-term economic #stagnation ; and lack of #opportunities across all regions.
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In the #OECD , success against the #pandemic was not as tied to levels of fiscal or political #decentralization , but to the gap between them.
Regional #UnfundedMandates explain to a large extent #COVID_19 excess mortality.
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The #Green Transition is reshaping the geography of #jobs , with regions already behind facing heightened short-term risks.
For these regions, it never rains but it pours, as the European #Green Deal exacerbates existing #inequality and territorial divides.
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