Impact of European Integration on Regional Structural Change and Cohesion

Christiane Krieger-Boden is a Research Associate at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in Germany. Dr Edgar Morgenroth is a Senior Research Officer at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin. Dr George Petrakos is a Professor of Spatial Economics at the University of Thessaly in Greece.

• 1 Regional structural change and cohesion in the enlarged European Union: an introduction 2 Specialization and concentration in a polarized country: the case of Italian regions 3 Economic integration and structural change: the case of Irish regions 4 A Southern perspective on economic integration and structural change: the case of Greek regions 5 Southern enlargement and structural change: case studies of Spain, Portugal and France 6 Regional structural change at the interface between old and new member states: the case of Austrian regions 7 Eastern enlargement in a nutshell: case study of Germany 8 European integration, regional structural change and cohesion in Poland 9 Economic integration and structural change: the case of Hungarian regions 10 Regional economic divergence patterns in the Czech Republic 11 The regional economic structure of Romania, 1992–2001 12 Economic integration and structural change: the case of Bulgarian regions 13 The location of multinational enterprises in Central and Eastern European countries 14 Structural change and regional policy: concluding remarks