An EPRC study on 'Visions and Options for Cohesion Policy after 2013' was presented at the European Parliament on 5 October 2011.
Commissioned by the Parliament's Regional Development (REGI) Committee, and led by Carlos Mendez, John Bachtler and Fiona Wishlade, the study provides a critical analysis of EU Cohesion policy reform perspectives for the post-2013 period.
On the basis of a literature review and budgetary modelling, it offers an assessment of the policy's strengths and weaknesses, the main reform ideas and counter-positions, including the implications of different reform proposals.
Recommendations are derived to inform the position of the European Parliament in the upcoming negotiations on the legislative package of regulations at this critical juncture in the policy reform process.
The report can be downloaded here.