The S&D Rapporteur focuses on the main challenges of structural transformation processes in old industrialised regions in the European Union and on the role EU Cohesion policy can play in this context.
This initiative report identifies three main objectives:
a) to identify where regional funding is most needed in old industrialised regions
b) to determine which successful regional strategies exist for undertaking structural change and
c) to define how the Cohesion policy funds can be further used to support industrial regeneration.
The report presents some ideas on how specific challenges and obstacles can be overcome by developing well-structured regional strategies. It also highlights the role that European public funding could play in possible future attempts to reconvert old industrialised regions.