Tag Archives: EU funding

EU rural development and 'semi-literate farmers'

An ambitious policy: “The EU’s rural development policy is all about meeting the challenges faced by our rural areas, and unlocking their potential.” Especially the ‘new’ EU member states hoped to benefit from these funding programmes after joining the EU. Here is Alina Mungiu Pippidi‘s ‘Romanian reality check’ taken from her forthcoming book “A tale [...]
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The Art of EU acronyms…

Something lighter for a change. What do all these words have in common? AGORES, DAPHNE, EQUAL, HOPE, JEREMIE, JASPERS, JESSICA, RAPID, Marco Polo, PRADO, PRELEX, PROGRESS, SIMAP, TRANSIT, URBAN, Ok, the question was rather rhetorical: There are of course all acronyms for EU programmes, EU grants and some EU databases. In case you still don’t [...]
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