The book represents the outputs from a European conference on Regional Futures.

What is it about?

A chapter in the book is Appraising Europe in the Regions 1994-1999:A Case Study of recent experiences in Yorkshire and Humberside,United Kingdom. Written at a time when UK local authorities turned to European regional policy to provide a stream of finance for innovation in regional economic development and urban regeneration.

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Why is it important?

The chapter examines a range of issues which arose in the context of contested governace between European,national and local governments in the United Kingdom. It describes the Delors 2 package and the Structural Funds delivered through Objectives One and Two and the \Heseltine regional Challenge proposals published in 1995 which tried to introduce for the first time a regional Challenge model into European funding, following the urban policy City Challenge model. it reports on the regional prizes for the first round