New Challenges of Regional and Structural Policy for the Upcoming Period 2014–2020 with Specification for NUTS 2 South-West

Abstract

The article is focused on the issues of regional and structural policy and on analysis of current situation of using the financial resources from the EU with specification for the town České Budějovice. The article describes the new forthcoming proposals of regional policy for the regions NUTS 2. There is also graphically expressed absorption capacity of the NUTS 2 regions in the Czech Republic from the perspective of old and new programming period. In the end of the article authors focus on discussion of new designed processes and approaches in regional and structural policy to reduce regional disparities of regions NUTS 2.

Keywords

• regional and structural policy
• absorption capacity
• disparities