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Dimension of territorial cohesion, February 07, 2011
Warsaw
Professor Danuta Hübner participated in a conference on territorial cohesion organised by the Ministry of Regional Development and the International Committee on Spatial Planning and Development in the Baltic Sea Region.
Professor drew attention to the impact of the crisis in the European regions and stressed that cohesion policy has to deal with it by implementing innovative solutions to reduce the disparities arising from different geography conditions.
According to Professor Danuta Hübner: "Territoriality is an important part of the EU policy. The long-term development of the Union depends on how we enable the territories, even the most remote from the centers of economic exchange, in the process of development based on the synergy of various factors in order to provide added value in the integration process. We can achieve this by properly understood subsidiary practice, which should not rely on a rigid division of tasks, but more on inclusive division of labour in the inter-institutional aspect".
Professor said that subsidiary can not be an alibi for the avoidance of interactivity, particularly with regard to multi-level governance. Europe is increasingly becoming the domain of "soft institutional architecture”, where functions and powers mutually merge in relation with the mobilization of all forces for the development and growth. There are questions about the direction of development policy, for example, whether direct cohesion policy more on balancing economic disparities resulting from unfavourable locations in the region, or rather on the formation of strong links between the so-called "locomotives" of growth and the other "wagons".
In the opinion of Professor Hübner, the Development Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region can become a model project of regional policy in the macroeconomic context. Responding to questions Professor underlined the growing role of the European Parliament in the political discussions and an increasingly open attitude of ministers responsible for regional policy in its dealings with the Committee for Regional Development.
Warsaw, February 7, from 12.00 to 14.00, Hotel Mercury
Temporary Committee; completed its work 31.07.2011
Temporary Committee; completed its work 31.07.2011
Professor Danuta Huebner presented the report on the
achievements of EU regional policy in the years 2004-2009.
