For a more place-based approach. Position paper of CESCI on the Future of Cohesion Policy.

This short position paper should not be considered but as a modest recommendation to take place-based approach seriously. The compilators of the document would not like to deny the definitive role of economic governance, ex-ante conditionalities, the net payers’ interests, the need for concentration of resources and the role the indicators play in all this game. They only would like to draw the attention to the weak representation of territoriality in general within Cohesion Policy. According to CESCI’s point of view, efficiency, what could be the way to measure the results of CP rests on setting territoriality into the heart of European policies.