What’s Up In Brussels?

Kevin Richardson

Fabrizio BarcaGeneral Director for DevelopmentMinistry of Economy and Finance, Italy

Behind the Headlines? (1)

• New position of EU Parliament / greater use of co-decision

• The capacity issue of managing multi level governance between and within 27 + Member States; inc departmentalism with EU COM

• Administrative regions? Or macro-regions? (Baltic, Danube, North Sea) or functional economic areas?

• Managing accession? (Croatia, Iceland, Macedonia, Turkey). Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, & Ukraine)

Behind the Headlines (2)?

• Centripetal forces of € / Long term challenge to CAP & Rural Development

• Redistribution (Art 174) or building agglomeration? (density, distance & divisions) (see World Development Report 2009)

• Is it only about growth? (GDP per capita PPS at NUTS 2)

• From (failed) Lisbon Strategy (see Kok) to fundamental challenges of Europe 2020 (ageing, migration, energy, environment, climate change, education, & child poverty)

• Grants or loans? (ever wider role for EIB?) Building conditionality into programming (macro and programming)

Towards 2014?

• Draft Regulations. July ’11?

• Providing the details of the ‘big shift’ in the UK position?

• What role for local government in shaping the new programmes?

• How best to deal with the urban & rural questions?

• What hope for an integrated approach and what implications of 40+ LEPs?

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