Cohesion policy

National plans, regional voices: cohesion policy in the next European Union budget

NRPPs could raise the EU added value of the 2028–34 budget, but reform conditions and decision-making must better reflect regional needs

Zsolt Darvas, Marie-Sophie Lappe, Bo Sangers and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

The link between the European Semester and the next EU budget

Zsolt Darvas

Updated assessment: Memos to the commissioners responsible for EU foreign, enlargement, and partnerships policies

Heather Grabbe, Jean Pisani-Ferry and Jeromin Zettelmeyer

Memo to the commissioner responsible for enlargement

Zsolt Darvas and Heather Grabbe

What about the EU’s cohesion?

Maria Demertzis

European Union cohesion project characteristics and regional economic growth

A new approach, which estimates 'unexplained economic growth', provides insights into the types of European Union cohesion projects that produce bette

Zsolt Darvas, Jan Mazza and Catarina Midões

Cross-border, but not national, EU interregional development projects are associated with higher growth

Our calculations reveal that places where EU regional development projects bind together participants from different countries experience higher econo

Zsolt Darvas, Jan Mazza and Catarina Midões

Deep Focus: Making a success of EU cohesion policy

Bruegel senior fellow Zsolt Darvas talks to Sean Gibson in this Deep Focus podcast about how the EU can improve its cohesion policy, citing the best e

Zsolt Darvas and Sean Gibson

Director’s Cut: A strategic agenda for the incoming EU presidents

In this Director’s Cut of ‘The Sound of Economics’, Bruegel’s Guntram Wolff and Maria Demertzis talk through their memo to the new presidents of the E

Maria Demertzis, André Sapir and Guntram B. Wolff

Effectiveness of cohesion policy: learning from the project characteristics that produce the best results

This study by Zsolt Darvas, Antoine Mathieu Collin, Jan Mazza, and Catarina Midões analyses the characteristics of cohesion policy projects that can c

Zsolt Darvas, Jan Mazza, Catarina Midões and Antoine Mathieu Collin

A European atlas of economic success and failure

Economic growth was diverse across EU regions, yet it is crucial to control for region-specific factors in assessing growth performance. We find that

Zsolt Darvas, Jan Mazza and Catarina Midões

How to improve European Union cohesion policy for the next decade

This policy contribution investigates the performance of the design, implementation and effectiveness of cohesion policy, the most evaluated EU tool f

Zsolt Darvas, Jan Mazza and Catarina Midões

Promoting sustainable and inclusive growth and convergence in the European Union

This Policy Contribution was written for the Informal ECOFIN Meeting, Bucharest, 5 April 2019. The authors look at the EU’s economic agenda, discussin

André Sapir, Guntram B. Wolff and Maria Demertzis