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EU multi-level governance patterns and the cohesion fund
The new Cohesion Fund (1993-1999) seems to challenge the multi-level pattern of governance of the Structural Funds, where sub-national actors and Commission have a prominent role in the decision-making and implementation procedures. The current article analyses the apparent 'state-centred' nature of this new redistributive instrument of the EU, through three main points. Firstly, by a study of the role of the Commission in the implementation of the Cohesion Fund projects; secondly, by looking at the recent attempts to enforce the conditionality principle; and finally, by a study of the role of sub-national actors in Spain in implementing the Fund. The article concludes with mixed results, showing how non-state actors play a larger role in the implementation stage than it seemed at first glance, but also that important state-centric elements coexist, as one of the states has recently achieved a political compromise with the Commission about the enforcement of the conditionality principle following most of its initial premises.
EU multi-level governance patterns and the cohesion fund
The new Cohesion Fund (1993-1999) seems to challenge the multi-level pattern of governance of the Structural Funds, where sub-national actors and Commission have a prominent role in the decision-making and implementation procedures. The current article analyses the apparent 'state-centred' nature of this new redistributive instrument of the EU, through three main points. Firstly, by a study of the role of the Commission in the implementation of the Cohesion Fund projects; secondly, by looking at the recent attempts to enforce the conditionality principle; and finally, by a study of the role of sub-national actors in Spain in implementing the Fund. The article concludes with mixed results, showing how non-state actors play a larger role in the implementation stage than it seemed at first glance, but also that important state-centric elements coexist, as one of the states has recently achieved a political compromise with the Commission about the enforcement of the conditionality principle following most of its initial premises.
EU multi-level governance patterns and the cohesion fund
Borras, Susana (Autor:in)
European Planning Studies ; 6 ; 211-225
01.04.1998
15 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch