CENTRAL AND PERIPHERIAL REGIONS – A TOPICAL PROBLEM IN REGIONAL POLICY
CENTRAL AND PERIPHERIAL REGIONS – A TOPICAL PROBLEM IN REGIONAL POLICY

Summary/Abstract: The importance of the regions in the European political and social-economic processis growing still further. The central and peripheral regions are related with regional imbalance inits capacity of structural characteristics of the EU. With each accession to the union the number ofproblematic regions constantly increases. This fact imposes the necessity of studying the disparitiesin the development of the central regions and the periphery with the aim of formulating an optimalapproach to the stimulation of the latter by outlining the new role of the “local interested parties” fordetermining the future of the respective territory. The theoretical grounds of the policy towards thecentral and peripheral regions have been considered. On the example of Bulgaria these two types ofregions are analyzed and models have been proposed for territorial development.

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