{"id":28585,"date":"2020-06-11T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/politiki-synochis-skeptiko-kinitra-arches-kai-stochoi\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:05:34","slug":"politiki-synochis-skeptiko-kinitra-arches-kai-stochoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/politiki-synochis-skeptiko-kinitra-arches-kai-stochoi\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohesion Policy: Rationale, motivation, principles and goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>In this Policy Paper, <strong>Achilleas Mitsos<\/strong>, Former Director General European Commission; Secretary General for Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Professor International Economic Relations, University of the Aegean; Special Adviser of ELIAMEP, discusses the Cohesion Policy of the EU.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The motives behind cohesion policy have always been heterogeneous and may work in a complementary but also in a contradictory way.<\/li>\n<li>Reducing spatial inequalities together with the principles of justice, solidarity, altruism have coexisted with the need to compensate for the negative consequences of the single market\u2019s completion.<\/li>\n<li>The redistribution for justice and equity may contradict or enhance development policy.<\/li>\n<li>Cohesion policy can work to the detriment of some less developed areas and to the benefit of richer Member States.<\/li>\n<li>European integration is promoted by cohesion policy and the development and strongest political presence of the regions.<\/li>\n<li>The coincidence of numerous and sometimes contradictory goals often leads to &#8220;heterogony of ends&#8221;: The ultimately served goals differ from those initially pursued. The consequences of the actions go beyond and \/ or contradict the original intentions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may find the full text of the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Policy-paper-32-\u0391\u03c7\u03b9\u03bb\u03bb\u03ad\u03b1\u03c2-\u039c\u03b7\u03c4\u03c3\u03cc\u03c2.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0(in Greek language).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Policy Paper, Achilleas Mitsos, Former Director General European Commission; Secretary General for Research and Development, Ministry of Education, Professor International Economic Relations, University of the Aegean; Special Adviser of ELIAMEP, discusses the Cohesion Policy of the EU. The motives behind cohesion policy have always been heterogeneous and may work in a complementary but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492,104],"tags":[394],"program":[27,17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44877,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28585\/revisions\/44877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28585"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=28585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}