Report on the synergies between EU Cohesion Policy and rural development policies

"Deliverable 4.2 builds on the results of previous literature (e.g., Crescenzi et al., 2015) as well as on the project team’s personal involvement in programming, monitoring and evaluation of EU funded measures in several EU-15 and EU-13 countries to (i) identify potential complementarities and synergies between EU Cohesion Policy, rural and urban policies supported by EU funds in order to improve the European Policy performance and the EU citizens’ perceptions of it, and (ii) contribute to assess the level of EU policy targeting in the case study regions, providing an analysis of discrepancies between regional policies implemented in each case study area and the ""real problems"" perceived by regional actors/population"