The Regional Economic Resilience and Cohesion Policy

Abstract

This article discusses the impact of regional status in the term of the EU’s Cohesion Policy on the economic resilience of regions. Some regions can be described as more or less resilient to the economic recession from the position of resilient theory perspective. The aim of this paper is to clarify the relationship between economic resilience of regions and status of cohesion regions in the term of the EU’s Cohesion Policy. The analytic part of this work is created upon the NUTS 2 regional data sets and reflects the impacts of the 2008 economic crises. The main methodological attitude is processed by the correlation analysis. As part of this objective is the evaluation of the differences between the determinants of economic resilience with regard to the EU’s Cohesion Policy regional status.