Politiche di Coesione e Pac: una rassegna del dibattito corrente

Journal title QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria
Author/s Mara Giua
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2014/4
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 119-145 File size 132 KB
DOI 10.3280/QU2014-004006
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EU Cohesion Policy and CAP. A Review of the Current Debate Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy are the most highly financed policies within the EU Budget and the most decisive in terms of the territorial distribution of the resources. Although they are extremely interdependent in terms of design and implementation, they are not taken as such in the evaluation stage. This essay highlights how ignoring the interdependence of these policies leads to partial and counterintuitive results at the level of their structure and impact. In particular, policy interaction and synergies risk being left out from the debate even though they constitute core aspects of the whole European strategy (Europe 2020). EconLit Classification: R100, Q100

Keywords: Europe, Cohesion policy, CAP, Policy evaluation

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Mara Giua, Politiche di Coesione e Pac: una rassegna del dibattito corrente in "QA Rivista dell’Associazione Rossi-Doria" 4/2014, pp 119-145, DOI: 10.3280/QU2014-004006