Causes And Consequences Of Regional Disparities In Eu

Plan of essay.

First, I will introduce the problem, and will explain some aspects of it in different contexts.

Then, I will explain the results of this problem and which are the causes that create the regional disparities in the European Union.

Finally, I will explain the direct consequences of the regional disparities in the European Union.





















Theissue of regional disparities is a subject which is talked about in different spheres of the society and it is one of the most serious problems in the European context. This issue became an important problem in science and it was the scientific analyses of regional disparities that not only identified these disparities and their extent, but also drew attention to their origins and impacts andtheir multidimensional character.

Political interest as well as the interest of science in the regional issue is augmenting along with the growing of space differences and inequalities among territorial units (and regions as well) within EU. These spatial differences tend to grow over and create a socially unwelcome polarization on different spatial levels of the society, which weakens thecohesion of space units in national contexts and also within EU. It is thus connected with the process globalization and the development of information society, but also with the social and political changes in Central and Eastern Europe. In this context, the interest of science is aimed at the extent, cause and consequences of region development polarization, but it seeks also the possibilities how toeliminate these big differences among regions or at least to reduce them to a socially acceptable level.

Regional disparities are a serious social problem, but they are also considered as a complex issue for research. This issue is topical particularly in the Central European countries which undergo a process of transformation. It is a territory specific not only from the settlementdistinctiveness point of view, but also socio-culturally and not least, the countries of this European region were undergoing and still undergo a complex and a multilateral process of important qualitative changes in the core of the society and its social-spatial organization. One thing that is common for all the transforming, post-socialist countries of this part of Europe is the fact that by thetransition of their societies to a new economic, social and political principles, the conditions for the change of system development were created also in social-spatial sphere. This sphere was affected by factors causing complications, retarding or deforming the natural tendencies of development in the system of settlement during preceding period. Social and spatial situation of these countries reflectsobviously this increase of not only social differences, but also space, settlement and regional differences.

So far, this process in Central Europe can be observed mainly as a consequence of decentralization of public administration that dis-closed various problems of regional disparities and drew attention to a need of professional analyses for political decision making.

Especially inCentral Europe, the issue of regional disparities is urgent and it is serious from the social point of view. The transformation period in the Central European countries was a period of dynamic development not only of society and economy, but there were also some important changes in their regional structure. A rapid increase of regional disparities became one of the most characteristic features ofsocial and economic transformation in these countries. Separate regions, differing in the quality of economic and human potentials and the ability to react to new conditions in market economy and to heterogeneity of social processes were developing on a different level. In general, every radical change (a transformation or an economic boom) causes a strong increase of differentiation which is...