European Union Regional Policy

An examination of the goals and operation of a European Union regional policy to address income inequality among member regions. A broadly held view holds that regional planning in Europe has developed within very distinctive legal and administrative frameworks i.e. British, Napoleonic, Germanic, Scandinavian and East European. In most of the Continental Europe especially within the Federal states there is a view that local and regional authorities possesses a general power over the affairs of their communities, in the United Kingdom notwithstanding the requirement to provide public services on a local degree as agents of central governments. The responsibility to do such is dependent on the concept of basic structure in case of local authority is powers conferred upon it by the centre.