{"id":253147,"date":"2026-07-13T02:36:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/a-future-for-the-european-patchwork-detlef-briesen\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T02:36:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:36:32","slug":"a-future-for-the-european-patchwork-detlef-briesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/a-future-for-the-european-patchwork-detlef-briesen\/","title":{"rendered":"A Future For The European Patchwork – Detlef Briesen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As replacement for the ERDF and the ESF, the Shared Prosperity Fund was established with a budget of \u00a32.6 billion and a spending period of three years (2022\u20132025). While the EU funding required match funding in the form of national co-financing, the UKSPF had no such requirements to provide flexibility, reduce bureaucracy, and empower lead local authorities. However, public, private, and tertiary sectors were strongly encouraged to consider match funding to create greater impacts (cf. Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities\/Ministry of Housing and Local Government (2018 to 2021) 2021b, 7.4).<\/p>\n

The UKSPF was published alongside the Levelling Up White Paper. Unite and level up were the keywords of Johnson\u2019s election campaign in 2019. After the election, Levelling Up the UK became the flagship slogan for Johnson\u2019s premiership. In 2021, the term was politically materialised in Build back better. Between 2020 and 2021, the legislative framework of the Biden administration was also called Build Back Better plan.<\/p>\n

It is not documented whether the naming was inspired by the USA. Our Plan for Growth: \u201cWe will level up our country, so the map of our whole United Kingdom is lit up with competitive cities and vibrant towns that are centres of life \u2013 places people are proud to call home, with access to the services and the jobs they need to thrive,\u201d as Johnson wrote in the preface (HM Government 2021).<\/p>\n

The plan was coined to be the reaction to Brexit and was presented as possibility \u201cto do things differently, opening new ways to drive growth.\u201d (HM Government 2021, 12) Central targets of the plan were to close productivity gaps between the EU and the UK, to create the best conditions for private investment, the creation of high-skilled jobs and to boost regional productivity. The basic approach was based on three pillars: investments in infrastructures, measures for the creation of high-skilled jobs, and fostering innovation and investments (HM Government 2021, 15\u201319, 71).<\/p>\n

With the publication of the Levelling Up White Paper in 2022, this approach was further developed. General aim of the programme was to reduce the disparities between the south-east and the rest of the UK by literally levelling up productivity, wages and employment, health conditions and school performance to boost the economic performance of the UK: \u201cIf underperforming places were levelled up towards the UK average, unlocking their potential, this could boost aggregate UK GDP by tens of billions of \u00a3 each year.<\/p>\n

[\u2026] Success in levelling up is about growing the economic pie, everywhere and for everyone, not re- slicing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The issue of cohesion and the policies associated with it are concerns not only for supranational entities such as the EU, but also for nation states and regions alike. Traditional instruments for promoting cohesion include symbolic, economic and social policies. However, given the contemporary tensions at both the international and domestic levels, attempts to create or maintain \u203acohesion\u2039 are so important that innovative approaches must be pursued. This book asks to what extent spatial and urban planning, in their claim to be more than just sectoral policies, have contributed to the cohesion of societies over the last 30 years: at European, intergovernmental, national and regional levels \u2013 in times of challenging transformations on all spatial levels.<\/p>\n

The book is therefore divided into three parts, which examine the achievements and shortcomings of cohesion policies in their theoretical assumptions, at national and regional level, and in intergovernmental cooperation. The various contributions show that spatial cohesion policies are significant factors for the cohesion of societies even beyond their borders, but that these have too often not received the recognition they deserve. 1kitap1.com\/en Vita Detlef Briesen is a social scientist and historian. He teaches at Justus Liebig University Giessen, and at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi.<\/p>\n

Wendelin Strubelt is social scientist in the field of urban and regional sociology. Before his retirement 2008 he was Vice President and Professor of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning. 1kitap1.com\/en I. Content Detlef Briesen and Wendelin Strubelt: Introduction Cohesion Policy and Spatial Planning as Instruments for Strengthening European Integration and Identity? What are the Benefits of an Active Cohesion Policy as a Spatial Policy? European Cohesion Policy Structure of the book References Acknowledgements History and Future of Cohesion Policies Cliff Hague: Facing Polycrisis: Lessons from Fifty Years of Spatial Planning Practice and Research European Regional Policy in the 1970s The 1980s: Towards Integration and Spatial planning Spatial Planning Research 1975\u20131989 1990\u20132008: The Golden Age of Spatial Planning in Europe?<\/p>\n

Spatial Planning Research 1990\u20132008 Leaps to the Polycrisis: The Period since 2009 European Spatial Planning in a Global Context Spatial Planning Research since 2008 Conclusions and Lessons from the Post-2008 Period References Klaus R. Kunzmann: Territorial Cohesion, the Magic Stick to Unite Europe Introduction Spatial Disparities in Europe Future Spatial Development Trends in the EU The Mission and Future of the EU-Cohesion Policy Which Alternative?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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