Under the new-style economic and social cohesion policy, a specific programme to compensate for additional costs, to be encompassed within the ‘Convergence’ objective and financed by the ERDF for the period from 2007 to 2013, aims to tackle accessibility – the problems are more severe for the outermost regions than for the mainland – both between the outermost regions and within the territory of each region, and support industrial competitiveness.
Under the new-style economic and social cohesion policy, a specific programme to compensate for additional costs, to be encompassed within the ‘Convergence’ objective and financed by the ERDF for the period from 2007 to 2013, aims to tackle accessibility – the problems are more severe for the outermost regions than for the mainland – both between the outermost regions and within the territory of each region, and support industrial competitiveness.