Achievements and Prospects of the Absorption of Structural and Cohesion Funds under the Impact of Global Crises

Camelia Nicoleta MEDELEANU; Mihaela Dana IGNAT

doi:10.18662/lumproc.rsacvp2017.43

Camelia Nicoleta MEDELEANU Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Philosophy and Social and Political Sciences, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Iași, Romania
Mihaela Dana IGNAT Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Faculty of Economic and Business Administrations, Iasi, România

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18662/lumproc.rsacvp2017.43

Keywords: Regional development, social cohesion, structural funds and cohesion, low absorption, regional disparities

Abstract

Regional development and socio-economic cohesion is macro processes that are involved and engaged in all EU Member States. Romania, a full member on 1 January 2007, could not miss, but the degree of participation and profitability absorption of Structural Funds and Cohesion (FSC) - the main instruments for the implementation of cohesion policy in the Community - is different other countries because it raised the necessities and less possibilities, nor to be reformed so as to be a more active partner and valued in the struggle for development and intra-community cohesion. Romania has the lowest uptake of FSC in the EU at a rate of reimbursement requests in Brussels at the end of March 2016, only 61.57%. In this article we try to disseminate the causes of this low absorption, taking account of experience to date and the imperative for Romania to improve its absorption in 2014-2020.

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