European Policies Research Centre

From everyone at EPRC, we wish you a wonderful winter break filled with happiness and joy. We look forward to connecting with you in 2025 🎆🌟

Did you miss our final webinar of 2024 with Miriam Gonçalves? 👀 Check out our YouTube channel to watch the recent episode! 🎞️⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eE6BjzvZ

There has been an arguable decline in relevance and use of regional aid in the EU context with temporary EU-level frameworks providing a broader framework for crisis aid and the EU-level aid focus shifting more to how best to support green transition. The resulting regulatory spider’s web is incredibly complex while changes to margins around transparency may be significantly increasing administrative burden for public authorities. Our third report in the EoRPA series - European Regional Aid and Subsidy Control: A Policy Tool Unevenly Applied? - discusses these and other related developments including: ✔️Key challenges facing responsible public authorities ✔️Changes to regional aid maps ✔️Feedback on GBER revisions and updates to the de minimis regulation ✔️Challenges presented by the EC definition of ‘undertakings in difficulty' ✔️Subsidy control in post-Brexit UK Read the full report now: https://bit.ly/4iAEEFW Rona Michie

🚨 Coming this Friday: The third report in the EoRPA series - European Regional Aid and Subsidy Control: A Policy Tool Unevenly Applied? This report delves into contrasting developments in #EUStateAid, with a focus on regional aid over the past year. We also explore the significant evolution of UK subsidy control post-Brexit. Rona Michie

Have you signed up for our last webinar of the Autumn semester? 🍂💻 You can register here ➡️https://lnkd.in/efQ45EJM #CLLD #LAG #territorial #development

It's here! Part 2 of our EoRPA report series  - Regional Policy in Europe: No Place Left Behind - examines the latest developments in regional policy against a backdrop of rising security concerns, popular discontent with structural and regional disparities, and new vulnerabilities from the green transition.   Key highlights include: - Detailed analysis of changes to legislative and strategic frameworks 🧾📊 - Recent evaluations and stocktaking of regional policy – is it being effective? 📋✅ - Changing approaches to decentralisation and the governance of regional policy - how low can you go? 🏛️🔀 - The social, economic and political costs of regional decline 📉🏚️ Read the full report here: https://bit.ly/3BkGREE Ruth Downes, Martin Ferry, Rachel Maguire, John Bachtler

How have Local Action Groups (LAGs) impacted territorial development and governance in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area? 🔎🏘️ 📆 Join us for our forth and final webinar of the autumn semester on Wed 11 Dec (11h - 12h UK) as Miriam Gonçalves examines the challenges LAGs face in creating spatial-temporal solutions, addressing local issues through innovative governance arrangements, and facilitating multi-level interactions and territorial rescaling. Sign up now via the link below 🔗👇 https://lnkd.in/efQ45EJM

Regional policy is under the spotlight once again. Long-term structural challenges are being exacerbated by the spatial impact of security concerns, new green transition vulnerabilities and voter backlash against regional disparities and decline. This Friday, we’re releasing part two in our EoRPA series - Regional Policy in Europe: No Place Left Behind - which delves into these challenges and their implications for Europe. Ruth Downes, Martin Ferry, Rachel Maguire, John Bachtler

In case you missed it: the first EoRPA Report in the 2024 series is available now. With the new Commissioner for Regional Policy taking office, read our insights on Cohesion Policy and RRF implementation for 2021–27 and the debate on 2028+. Read the full paper here: https://bit.ly/3OykkHz

What will be the place of Cohesion and Cohesion Policy in the next Multiannual Financial Framework? How can more strategic coherence across EU policies be achieved? Can the place-based approach of Cohesion Policy be retained and strengthened? What lessons from the RRF could improve the implementation of Cohesion Policy? Our annual #EoRPA review of the state-of-play of Cohesion Policy has just been published here https://bit.ly/3OykkHz The paper reviews the current state of implementation of both Cohesion Policy and RRF implementation in 2021-27 and charts the evolving political and policy debates on MFF reform and the position of Cohesion Policy, concluding with a discussion of the key challenges and questions facing the EU's future policy approach to Cohesion. Duarte Rodrigues Dr. Raphael L'Hoest Dr. Bastian Alm Petri Haapalainen Frans Verkaart Odd Godal Sjoerd van Dommelen Alba Fagnani Balázs Greinstetter Irenа Nikolova Edgars Sadris Neveselá Kateřina Valérie Lapenne Riccardo Crescenzi Andrés Rodríguez-Pose Joaquim Oliveira Martins Jan-Philipp Kramer (PhD) Martin Weber Peter Wostner Peter Berkowitz Nicola De Michelis Jorge Nunez Ferrer Thomas Wobben Francesco Molica Laura Polverari Rui Inácio Carla Leal Ruud van Raak Heidi Minner Johannes ROSSBACHER Markus Seidl Richard Broos Radomir Matczak Nuno Oliveira Romão Alison Hunter Nick Brookes Emil Evenhuis Zsolt Darvas European Policies Research Centre Ida Musialkowska