Marios Camhis, Ph.D.
EU Fellow

1. What is the European Union? Federation, association of Member States or a unique construction? Where did it come from and where is it going? 

2. How does it work? The processes of decision-making (formal and informal) and its Institutions?

3. What is the degree of its integration and in which policy domains? What is the principle of subsidiarity?

4. Enlargement: What does it mean to be a member of the European Union?

5. Why do we have a regional development policy at the EU level? Solidarity, necessity or both? What do we mean by “economic and social cohesion”? How does this policy relate to the other EU policies?

6. Are the regional and social inequalities in the EU diminishing or growing? An overview of the existing situation and future trends.

7. The instruments of regional development policies: their underlying philosophy, the objectives, their strengths and weaknesses.

8. Regional plans and programmes for different types of regions and/or Member States. What kind of policy priorities and what kind of measures? Implementation and control mechanisms.

9. Examples of regional programmes for the regions whose development is lagging behind.

10. Examples of regional programmes for the regions facing structural difficulties (industrial, rural, urban).

11. The European Spatial (territorial) Development Perspective.

12. In a single European space, how to overcome the legacy of internal borders and how to handle the external ones? Cross-border and interregional co-operation.

13. The cities of the EU and their strengths and problems: from National Urban Systems towards a European Urban System.

14. The future of regional development policy in an enlarged Europe.
 
 

Regional Development

1. European Commission, 2001, Working for the Regions, Luxembourg, OPOCE
2. European Commission, January 2001, Unity, solidarity, diversity for Europe, its people and its territory, Second report on Economic and Social Cohesion, Volumes 1 and 2, Luxembourg, OPOCE
3. European Commission, January 2002, First progress report on cohesion, Unity, solidarity, diversity for Europe, its people and its territory (summary), Luxembourg, OPOCE.
4. European Commission, 2000, Structural actions 2000-2006 Commentary and Regulations, Luxembourg, OPOCE

5. European Commission, 1998, Driving regional development, EU Structural Funds programmes in the UK, Luxembourg, OPOCE
6. European Commission, 2001, Nordic Regions and Information Society, Success stories from Denmark, Finland and Sweden, Luxembourg, OPOCE
7. European Commission, 1998, Peace and Reconciliation, An imaginative approach to the European programme for Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of Ireland, Luxembourg, OPOCE
8. European Commission, 2001, A European success story, EU regional policy in Ireland, Luxembourg, OPOCE

9. European Commission, 2000, Europe on the right track, Luxembourg, OPOCE
10. European Commission, January 2002, Inforegio Panorama, Co-operation without borders, Luxembourg, OPOCE

11.  European Commission, 1999, European Spatial development perspective, Luxembourg, OPOCE
12.  European Commission, 2000, Spatial perspectives for the enlargement of the European Union, Luxembourg, OPOCE

13. European Commission, 1999, Sustainable urban development in the European Union, Luxembourg, OPOCE
14. European Commission, 2000, Urban Success Stories, Luxembourg, OPOCE

General 

17. Fontaine Pascal, 2000, A new idea for Europe, The Schuman declaration, 1950-2000, Luxembourg, OPOCE

18. European Commission (Borchardt Klaus-Dieter), 2000, The ABC of Community Law, Luxembourg, OPOCE