Unity, solidarity, diversity for Europe, its people and its territory

Second report on economic and social cohesion
(adopted by the European Commission on 31 January 2001)

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Table of Contents

FOREWORD BY MICHEL BARNIER ( 10 KB)

INTRODUCTION ( 10 KB)

SUMMARY ( 60 KB)

CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ( 68 KB)

10 QUESTIONS FOR PUBLIC DEBATE ON THE FUTURE OF COHESION POLICY
( 9 KB)

PART 1- SITUATION AND TRENDS

• 1.1 ECONOMIC COHESION ( 540 KB)
• 1.2 SOCIAL COHESION ( 3.11MB)
  • 2.1 Employment and unemployment
  • 2.2 Poverty
• 1.3 TERRITORIAL COHESION - TOWARDS A MORE
  BALANCED DEVELOPMENT ( 1.8 MB)
  • 3.1 The Union: a very centralised territory
  • 3.2 Urban areas
  • 3.3 Rural areas
  • 3.4 Border regions
  • 3.5 Areas with specific geographical features
• 1.4 FACTORS DETERMINING REAL CONVERGENCE
  • 4.1Productivity, competitiveness and economic performance
    ( 1,3 KB)
  • 4.2 Demography and migration ( 1,2 KB)
  • 4.3 Investment ( 54 KB)
  • 4.4 Infrastructure endowment ( 76 KB)
  • 4.5 Human resource development ( 760 KB)
  • 4.6 Innovation and RDT ( 415 KB)
    
  • 4.7 The knowledge economy ( 84 KB)
    

PART 2 - CONTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY POLICIES TO COHESION
( 730 KB)

• 2.1 ECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION (EMU)
  
• 2.2 INTERNAL MARKET
  
• 2.3 COMPETITION POLICY
  
• 2.4 THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY:
  PRICE AND MARKET POLICIES
  
• 2.5 EMPLOYMENT, HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
  AND COHESION
  
• 2.6 ENVIRONMENT POLICY
  
• 2.7 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY
  
• 2.8 TRANSPORT POLICY
  
• 2.9 ENERGY POLICY
  
• 2.10 ENTERPRISE POLICY
  
• 2.11 THE COMMON FISHERIES POLICY
  

PART 3- THE EU BUDGET AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF
STRUCTURAL POLICIES TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION

• 3.1 THE EU BUDGET AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION
  ( 64 KB)
  
• 3.2 THE CONTRIBUTION OF STRUCTURAL POLICIES TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COHESION: RESULTS AND PROSPECTS
  ( 280 KB)
  
  • 2.1 The financial effort to improve cohesion
    
  • 2.2 Assessing the effects of Community intervention (1994-99)
    • Objective 1: Catching-up and modernisation
    • Objective 2: strategic progress, but a limited leverage effect from Community support
    • Objective 3: improved targeting of the young and the long-term unemployed
    • Objective 4: concentration on the training needs of SMEs
    • Objective 5a and 5b: agricultural structures and rural development
    • Objective 6: improving accessibility and job creation
      
  • 2.3 Outlook for the new programming period, 2000-2006
  • 2.4 Preparing for enlargement: pre-accession support

REGIONAL FEATURES IN TURKEY ( 280 KB)

STATISTICAL ANNEX (maps, graphs and tables)