Regional competitiveness: the best practices meeting

The managing authorities of Objectives 1 and 2 Structural Fund programmes in six Member States (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland), as well as representatives from other countries, gathered in Rovaniemi, in Finnish Lapland, between 13 and 15 October 2004. Their meeting shed light not only on the great diversity of regional situations but also on the common capital of shared experience.

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