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Will territorial cohesion survive after 2028? Assessing the implications of the reform of Cohesion Policy for future structural funds

Piotr Żuber, John Bachtler, Paweł Churski, Tomasz Komornicki, Radomir Matczak, Adam Mikołajczyk, Aleksandra Nowakowska, Paweł Samecki, Jacek Szlachta, Jacek Zaucha

Geographia Polonica (2025) vol. 98, iss. 4, pp. 394-404 | Full text
doi: https://doi.org/10.7163/GPol.0309

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The paper provides a comprehensive analysis of promoting territorial cohesion as an EU Treaty objective after 2027. It identifies emerging challenges that must be addressed and outlines the fundamental components of a new EU cohesion framework. Furthermore, it examines the process by which these elements should be integrated into the EU Multiannual Financial Framework beyond 2027. The paper presents some new and forward-looking proposals, including the establishment of a new coordination mechanism translating overarching EU goals into local and regional implementation efforts. It provides a snapshot in the EU debate on the future of territorial cohesion initiated and promoted by the Polish Presidency of the EU Council and supported by Polish and foreign scientists in 2023-2024. This article is exploratory and reflective in nature and is intended to serve as inspiration for further discussion. It is based on a review of research on the cohesion policy, as well as on the authors' expert knowledge.

Keywords: Territorial Cohesion, EU Cohesion Policy, EU Multiannual Financial Framework beyond 2027, place-based approach, inequalities, European semester, multi-level governance, structural funds

Piotr Żuber [p.zuber2@uw.edu.pl]
Paweł Churski [pawel.churski@amu.edu.pl], Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Space Economy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland
Tomasz Komornicki [t.komorn@twarda.pan.pl], Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, 00‑818 Warszawa, Poland
Radomir Matczak [rmatczak@swps.edu.pl]
Adam Mikołajczyk [a.mikolajczyk@pomorskie.eu]
Aleksandra Nowakowska [aleksandra.nowakowska@uni.lodz.pl]
Paweł Samecki [pawel.samecki@gmail.com]
Jacek Szlachta [j.szlachta90@gmail.com]
Jacek Zaucha [jacek.zaucha@ug.edu.pl]

Unemployment dynamics in the process of system transformation in Poland

Teresa Czyż, Paweł Churski, Jan Hauke

Geographia Polonica (2000) vol. 73, iss. 1, pp. 24-46 | Full text

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The article presents an analysis of changes in the level and character of unem-ployment in Poland in the years 1990-1998 on the basis of a national and a regional approach. It embraces: (1) relations between national unemployment and changes in the economy, (2) a classification of regions on the basis of relative unemployment, and (3) the testing of the process of petrifaction of the regional structure of unemployment using the T-technique of principal components analysis.

Keywords: Poland, national unemployment and stages of transformation, regional vari-ation in unemployment over time, T-technique of principal components analysis

Teresa Czyż [tczyz@amu.edu.pl], Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Space Economy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland
Paweł Churski [pawel.churski@amu.edu.pl], Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Space Economy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland
Jan Hauke, Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Space Economy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Fredry 10, 61-701 Poznań, Poland