Vol.4, No 1, 2007 pp. 47 - 52
UDC 711(497.2)
EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS AND THE BULGARIAN ECONOMY
Rosen Ivanov Kirilov
UNWE, Faculty of Management and Informatics, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Operational Programme "Regional Development" 2007-2013 will have to reach the following mid-term objectives. Programme general objective - Enhancement of the quality of life and working environment with better accessibility to the basic services and new opportunities for improved regional competitiveness and sustainable development. Programme specific objectives: Developing sustainable and dynamic urban centres connected with their less urbanized hinterlands, thus enhancing their opportunities for prosperity and development; Ensuring in regions significantly lagging behind better accessibility to road-, ICT- and energy networks; Enhancing the regional tourism potential to develop and market sustainable and diversified, territorially specific and higher value-added tourist products; Mobilising regional and local technical and institutional opportunities and resources for implementing regional development policies . Based on the outcomes of socio-economic analysis and SWOT analysis, the OP "Regional Development" is a strategic focus on limited issues in response to the EU objectives for achieving growth and jobs in the light of the re-launched Lisbon Strategy using the instruments of the Cohesion policy and the Community Strategic Guidelines for Cohesion 2007-2013. The focus is on a selective mix of several strategic items mostly falling within the scope of the first main guideline.
Key Words:
EU structural funds, regional development
EVROPSKI STRUKTURNI FONDOVI I BUGARSKA PRIVREDA
U ovom radu su predstavljeni načini finansiranja projekata iz evropskih strukturnih fondova i njihov značaj za funkcionisanje bugarske privrede. Operativni program "Regionalni razvoj 2007-2013 treba da omogući dostizanje nekih srednjoročnih ciljeva, o čemu će biti reči u ovom radu .
Ključne reči:
evropski strukturni fondovi, regionalni razvoj
