- Map of Europe
- About the Authors
- About the Book
- New to this Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part One Theory
- 1. Theories of European Integration
- 2. Theories of EU Governance
- 3. Theorizing Consequences
- 4. Critical Perspectives
- Part Two History
- 5. From the End of the War to the Schuman Plan (the late 1940s to the early 1950s)
- 6. The ‘Other’ European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)
- 7. The First Years of the European Economic Community (the 1960s and into the 1970s)
- 8. The Revival of European Integration (the Mid-1970s to the Late 1980s)
- 9. Maastricht and Amsterdam (the Late 1980s to the Late 1990s)
- 10. From Amsterdam to Lisbon (2000–2009)
- 11. The EU in Crisis (2009–)
- Part Three Institutions
- 12. The Institutional Architecture
- 13. The European Commission
- 14. The European Council and the Council of Ministers
- 15. The European Parliament
- 16. The European Court of Justice
- 17. Organized Interests
- Part Four Policies
- 18. Policies and Policy Making in the European Union
- 19. Agriculture
- 20. The Single Market
- 21. Economic and Monetary Union
- 22. Cohesion Policy
- 23. Environmental Policy
- 24. Freedom, Security, and Justice
- 25. Trade and Development Aid
- 26. Common Foreign and Security Policy
- 27. Enlargement
- Appendix—Brexit supplement
- Further reading
- References
- References
- Glossary
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Chronology
- General Index
- Name Index
(p. 405) 22. Cohesion Policy
- Chapter:
- (p. 405) 22. Cohesion Policy
- Author(s):
Ian Bache
, Simon Bulmer
, Stephen George
, and Owen Parker
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780199689668.003.0022
This chapter examines the European Union’s cohesion policy, which had its origins in the European Community’s regional policy. Despite evidence of wide disparities between Europe’s regions, the Treaty of Rome made no specific commitment to the creation of a Community regional policy. It was only in 1975 that a European regional fund was created, and a coherent supranational policy emerged only in 1988. The chapter traces key developments in cohesion policy, focusing on reforms made between 1988 and 2013. Enlargement and the single market programme provided the context for a major reform of the structural funds in 1988. In the 2013 reform, the Commission’s subsequent proposals linked cohesion policy to the goals of the Europe 2020 growth strategy. The chapter also considers shifts in the intergovernmental–supranational nature of policy control in the sector that first gave rise to the notion of multi-level governance.
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- Map of Europe
- About the Authors
- About the Book
- New to this Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Guided Tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Part One Theory
- 1. Theories of European Integration
- 2. Theories of EU Governance
- 3. Theorizing Consequences
- 4. Critical Perspectives
- Part Two History
- 5. From the End of the War to the Schuman Plan (the late 1940s to the early 1950s)
- 6. The ‘Other’ European Communities and the Origins of the European Economic Community (the Early 1950s to the 1960s)
- 7. The First Years of the European Economic Community (the 1960s and into the 1970s)
- 8. The Revival of European Integration (the Mid-1970s to the Late 1980s)
- 9. Maastricht and Amsterdam (the Late 1980s to the Late 1990s)
- 10. From Amsterdam to Lisbon (2000–2009)
- 11. The EU in Crisis (2009–)
- Part Three Institutions
- 12. The Institutional Architecture
- 13. The European Commission
- 14. The European Council and the Council of Ministers
- 15. The European Parliament
- 16. The European Court of Justice
- 17. Organized Interests
- Part Four Policies
- 18. Policies and Policy Making in the European Union
- 19. Agriculture
- 20. The Single Market
- 21. Economic and Monetary Union
- 22. Cohesion Policy
- 23. Environmental Policy
- 24. Freedom, Security, and Justice
- 25. Trade and Development Aid
- 26. Common Foreign and Security Policy
- 27. Enlargement
- Appendix—Brexit supplement
- Further reading
- References
- References
- Glossary
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Chronology
- General Index
- Name Index
