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EC_OECD Seminar Series on Designing better economic development policies for regions and cities

The objective of this paper is to perform a comprehensive analysis of regional policy evaluation in Turkey, while providing insights on transformations in global trends, domestic targets, development policy structures and implementation. The paper firstly considers the Turkish administrative structure and the meaning of ‘region’. This is followed by an examination of regional disparities from an administrative perspective and the transformation of regional development policies in accordance with the legal framework. In the subsequent part, the study scrutinizes the institutional capacity to implement effective regional policy, and finally it analyses reform packages that prescribe newly established institutions such as (regional) development agencies in order to fulfill the requirements of the EU acquis communautaire.

European Policy Research Paper, No. 98, European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

ISBN: 978-1-909522-28-2

The work, commissioned by Scotland Europa, presents the findings of the Scottish Stakeholder Discussion on the Future of European Collaboration, held on 29 September 2017 in Edinburgh organised by Scotland Europa, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise. The aims of the Conference were to stimulate participation in current EU programmes and wider EU collaboration as ‘investment in the future’, and to gather views to feed into Brexit discussions at Scottish and UK levels. The primary focus was on competitive EU funding programmes, in particular Horizon 2020 and INTERREG, but the debate also included the role of, and synergies, with the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF), and other forms of EU project-based funding.

Regional development is one of the main EU spending priorities through its Cohesion Policy. Brexit is among several influences on the future of the policy, whose evolution is part of a wider reshaping of the principles and practice of regional policy in Europe. A new paper by John Bachtler of EPRC and Iain Begg of LSE in Papers in Regional Science examines the emerging policy challenges for regional development and recent contributions to the regional literature policy. Drawing partly on EPRC research conducted under the EoRPA programme, it highlights innovation, human capital and effective institutions as three crucial dimensions of future policy. The paper argues that a shift in regional policy priorities, governance and territorial focus is underway – partly influenced by place‐based policy thinking ‐ at EU level under Cohesion Policy as well as under national regional policies in the EU27 and 

Contribution to edited volume by Buts C & Buendia Sierra J (eds) Milestones in State Aid Law, Lexxion. 

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IQ-Net Review Paper 41(1), European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

IQ-Net Thematic Paper 41(2), European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

IQ-Net Thematic Paper 40(2), European Policies Research Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Séminaire sur les aides d’Etat en faveur des infrastructures La règlementation des aides d’Etat, CGET, Ecole Militaire, Paris 25 January 2017.

Keynote presentation to the EStIF Interactive Forum: Management, Control and Audit of ESI Funds, Zagreb 11-12 May 2017