Research for REGI Committee – Greece: Regional Policy and Economic and Social Situation

Please note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.This in-depth analysis was prepared on the request of the Committee on Regional Development of the European Parliament in the context of its 2016 visit to Greece. The analysis provides an overview of Greece’s regions (with a special attention to Attica and Central Macedonia) and of its political, economic and administrative system.

In addition, this analyses focuses on the implementation of cohesion policy on the ground with a particular attention to the consequences of the recent amendment of the Common Provisions Regulation in respect of special measures for Greece, as well as to Greece’s participation in six European Territorial Cooperation programmes

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European Parliament: Directorate-General for Internal Policies of the Union: Publications available via the EU Bookshop http://bookshop.europa.eu/en/directorate-general-for-internal-policies-of-the-union-cbf.cKABstF7wAAAEjwYYY4e5K/

European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, September 2016: Research for REGI Committee - Greece: Regional Policy and Economic and Social Situation http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2016/585876/IPOL_IDA(2016)585876_EN.pdf

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