29th Annual Meeting of EPRC's EoRPA Consortium

http://www.eprc.strath.ac.uk/eorpa/Documents/EoRPA_08_Conf/photographs/images/PA060006_jpg.jpg <img src="http://www.eprc.strath.ac.uk/news/eorpa08.jpg" width="184" height="103" border="0" align="left The 29th annual meeting of the EoRPA Consortium (European Regional Policy Research Consortium) was held at the University of Strathclyde's country house, Ross Priory, on 5-7 October 2008 and was attended by senior regional policymakers from the nine Member States which, together with Norway, comprise the Consortium. The meeting was arranged around four keynote papers produced by EPRC staff: first, a comparative overview of recent regional policy developments in the EU and Norway (written by Douglas Yuill, Martin Ferry and Heidi Vironen with Irene McMaster and Katja Mirwaldt); second a review of recent State aid developments as they relate to the control of regional aid (by Fiona Wishlade); third, an assessment of the debate on Cohesion policy 2014+ (by John Bachtler, Carlos Mendez and Fiona Wishlade) and fourth, a reconsideration of the contested debate on territorial cohesion (by Katja Mirwaldt, Irene McMaster and John Bachtler). The meeting built on detailed country studies produced by the EPRC EoRPA team which includes all EPRC research staff plus associate researchers in Denmark and Greece (Professor Henrik Halkier and Maria-Amalia Vergoula) and a number of the new Member States. For more details on EoRPA, see http://www.eprc.strath.ac.uk/eorpa/default.cfm http://www.eprc.strath.ac.uk/eorpa/default.cfm ).