Professor John Bachtler and Dr Martin Ferry took were the keynote speakers at a conference organised by the Ministry of Regional Development in Warsaw to present the research conducted under EPRC's research programme on European regional policies (EoRPA).
The Conference on 12 April 2012 was attended by over 100 participants - government officials from several government ministries and regional government offices as well as academic experts. John and Martin presented three papers with the titles: 'Regional Policy in Europe - Divergent Trajectories?', 'Peripherality in Regional Policy - A Marginal Concern', and 'A Budget and Cohesion Policy for Europe 2020 - Let the Negotiations Begin'.
The papers drew on research undertaken by a range of EPRC staff over the 2010-2011 period and initially presented at the Annual EoRPA Conference held in October 2011.