Volume 23 (2017), Edition 2

This article deals with the role of the European Commission in the management of the European Development Fund, the main financial instrument of the Yaoundé and Lomé Conventions with the African, Caribbean and Pacific States. It also deals with...

Recent research has shown that (neo-)colonial concepts played a larger role in ideas about European collaboration in the 1950s than had been previously assumed. However, this recent international discussion is almost exclusively based on the French...

The paper deals with the transformation of regional development policies in Europe from the second half of the twentieth-century. This process is associated with the increasingly important role of EC/EU Regional Policy and a contextual emergence of...

This paper revisits the Common Agricultural Policy crisis of the 1970s/1980s, when growing policy expenditures became a stumbling block for European integrations. It explores the role of two conceptually different approaches - one based on the logic...

This article aims to shed light on the particular insights of the contextual challenges and feasibility factors of EU cohesion funds implementation in Spain as a result of a conceptually seeded political agency impact at the Maastricht Treaty...

The paper focuses on the qualitative analysis of the EU funding influence to the development of the associate countries and its impact on the fulfilment of the criteria for becoming a new EU member state. The particular focus of the analysis is...

This paper analyses Romania’s course of action in the area of EU-funded projects prior to and after integration, whilst emphasising the gradual creation of a managerial culture, at national level. Three major multiannual financing frameworks -...