PGD

Cross border cooperation in the EU

pgd — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:13:20 +0000

Look at the redistribution of resources among EU-15…we not only have to discuss what we mean by territorial cohesion, we have to be careful about the financial consequences. Was this intended?

Estados miembros	Interreg III (meuros, precios 1999)		“Cooperación territorial europea” (meuros, precios 2004)		Variación (en %)
Estados miembros	Total	50%-80%	Total	Transfronteriza†	Variación (en %)
Alemania	737	368-590	756	487	+2,6
Austria	183	91-146	228	202	+24,6
Bélgica	104	52-83	173	139	+66,3
Dinamarca	34	17-27	92	74	+170,6
España	900	450-720	497	364	-45
Gran Bretaña	362	181-290	642	449	+77,3
Grecia	568	284-454	186	150	-67
Finlandia	129	64-103	107	90	-17
Francia	397	198-318	775	573	+95,2
Irlanda	84	42-67	134	121	+59,5
Italia	426	213-341	752	566	+76,5
Luxemburgo	7	3-6	13	12	+85,7
Países Bajos	349	174-279	220	166	-37
Portugal	394	197-315	88	54	-78
Suecia	154	77-123	236	206	+53,2
UE-15	4828	2414-3864	4899	3653	+1,5
UE 12*	419		2461	2119	+487,3
No asignado	47		392
Total	5294		7750	5772	+46,4

A more mature pro-European position

pgd — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:47:17 +0000

European Integration is a compulsary course for Business undergraduate students at the University of Barcelona. I have been teaching the course for 15 years now. In those 15 years my students have become each time more demanding about the interests and position of Spain in relation with the EU. Most of my students still consider themselves pro-European Integration but they do not longer take it for granted. In the 1990s, only one or two students out of 300 were sceptical about Spain being part of the EU. In the last years, a good 30-40% of my students want to know which are the costs and benefits of integration for Spain. This does not respond to a more intense public debate in the national arena. Even during the run-out towards the Constitutional Treaty referendum, the political and public debate was very poor. All parties were in favour without much questioning of the contents. The two reasons for my students more mature approach towards European Integration seem to be: the euro (they associate it with higher prices) and the last enlargements (they associate them with Spain loosing financial support from the EU).

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pgd — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:50:32 +0000

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