The present paper looks at the competitiveness from a regional perspective and examines the basic factor which have influence on this phenomenon. This article aims at evaluating Poland's regional competitive performance by constructing an overall index, which is composed in accordance with the Huggin's Institute approach. The purpose of the paper is both rank the 16 Polish regions (voivodships) according to their competitive position and see whether Huggin's approach was appropriate for measuring Polish competitiveness.This article also aims to make a contribution to the debate surrounding the state of Polish regions competitiveness.Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag betrachtet die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit von Regionen und bestimmt Faktoren, die darauf Einfluss haben. Es wird versucht, die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Regionen Polens mit einem zusammenfassenden Index zu messen, der dem Ansatz des Huggin's Instituts entspricht. Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, U. Bronisz (u)
The article presents an analysis of Poland’s potential role as a European hub supporting the transportation of goods on the route between China and the EU. The authors point out a number of factors that can favour the development of a Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) hub in Poland. At the same time, they emphasise that higher demand for shipments through the New Eurasian Land Bridge within the SREB does not automatically mean that Poland will become the main hub on its European end. The study highlights several important aspects of competition as a result of which Poland is likely to adopt the role of a regional hub in Central and Eastern Europe.
Border regions are commonly perceived as peripheral in terms of transport accessibility and socio-economic development. The peripherality has meant that they have been and continue to be beneficiaries of a traditionally understood – i.e. compensatory – paradigm of regional development. To a large extent, this has been the character of the European Union Cohesion Policy to date. However, a new paradigm of regional development, manifested by the Territorial Agenda 2030, is becoming more and more popular. The article debates possible actions to be taken in regions along national borders to achieve their strategic objectives using the multi-level governance and territorial capital concepts and referring to the six priorities of the Territorial Agenda 2030.
ABSTRACT. The purpose of the present paper is to characterise the socio-economic potentials of the regions situated on both sides of the Polish-Russian, Polish-Belarusian and Polish-Ukrainian boundaries (against the background of historical conditions), as well as the economic interactions taking place within these regions. The analysis, carried out in a dynamic setting, sought to identify changes that have occurred owing to the enlargement of the European Union (including those associated with the absorption of the means from the pre-accession funds and from the structural funds). The territorial reach of the analysis encompasses four Polish units of the NUTS 2 level (voivodeships, or "voivodeships"), situated directly at the present outer boundary of the European Union: Warmia-Mazuria, Podlasie, Lublin and Subcarpathia. Besides, the analysis extends to the units located just outside of the eastern border of Poland: the District of Kaliningrad of the Russian Federation, the Belarusian districts of Hrodna and Brest, as well as the Ukrainian districts of Volyn, Lviv and Zakarpattya. KEYWORDS: Border regions, borderland, Eastern Poland, European integration, foreign trade, border traffi cTomasz Komornicki, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, Poland, Andrzej Miszczuk, Centre for European Regional and Local Studies EUROREG, University of Warsaw, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 30, Poland, a.miszczuk@uw.edu.pl 1 The paper is party based on the report "Eastern provinces of Poland as the borderland of the European Union" prepared for the University of Bordeaux in 2008. Some results of the ESPON 1.4.4. Project were also used.TOMASZ KOMORNICKI, ANDRZEJ MISZCZUK 56 IntroductionIn May 2004 the eastern and north-eastern boundary of Poland (including the Polish-Russian segment of 210 km, the Polish-Belarusian segment of 418 km, and the Polish-Ukrainian one of 535 km) became the outer boundary of the European Union, and in December of 2007 -the boundary of the extended Schengen zone. This has had a signifi cant infl uence on the socioeconomic situation of the border areas, some of which were economically the weakest regions of the European Union in the years [2004][2005][2006][2007] (until the accession of Romania and Bulgaria). The purpose of the present paper is to characterise the socio-economic potentials of the regions situated on both sides of the Polish-Russian, Polish-Belarusian and Polish-Ukrainian boundaries (against the background of historical conditions), as well as the economic interactions taking place within these regions. The analysis was carried out in a dynamic setting and sought to identify changes that have occurred owing to the enlargement of the European Union. The territorial reach of the analysis encompasses four Polish units of the NUTS 2 level (voivodeships, or "voivodeships"), situated directly at the present outer EU boundary: Warmia-Mazuria, Podlasie, Lublin and Subcarpathia. Besides, the analysis extends to the units located just beyond ...
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