European Regional Aid And Economical Development In Member States

Regional disparities are phenomena that interregional development is uneven, which are inevitably confronted with any country or region pursuing economical development and social advancement at a stage. Regional policy is certainly an harmonious one aimed at this issue, which urges even and harmonious economical development between regions and maintain reasonable distribution though changing spatial distributions resulted by market mechanism by ways of active regional tilt. As an important tool in regional policy, regional aid is an instrumental in reducing regional disparities and seeking even economical and social development.Although the majority of European nations are developed countries, there are marked disparities in development level between member states and between regions in Europe. In addition to member states, the European committee also provides aids for lagging regions as a super-country authority, in order to assistance backward countries and problem regions, with the purpose of improving local infrastructure such as transportation and communication, promoting economical and social development, advancing workers and ability in obtaining employment, achieving convergence in the area of European Union, consolidating internal great market, upgrading competitiveness in the world through aids in various problem regions. Regional aids in European Union are carried out though Structural Fund, Cohesion Fund, European Investment Bank and the Common Policy. Since the European Development Fund come into existence in 1970s, European Union has vigorously advanced economical development in lagging regions by regional aid, in some extent reducing disparities between advanced and lagging regions, and promoting economical development in Europe and the progress of integration.Aids from European Union have good effects, which becomes models in successfully implementing regional aid by European Union. Ireland was one of the poorest countries in European Union when becoming a member state. The widening between member states attracted more attention. European Union offered a great deal of investment in productive programmes, infrastructure, environmental protection, industrial assistance, human resources in Ireland, exploiting potential economical development. European Union aid in Ireland is a success story, which played an inevitable important role in the transition of Ireland from a traditional agricultural country into industrial one and realizing big-step development. The reasons lie in arrange and volume aided by European Union, as well as a series of efforts by Ireland, of which particular operations and skills effected on absorbing fund and increasing utilizing rate, etc. Ireland's efforts of energetically striving for fund and other experiences are worthy of reference.Enlargement of European Union in east and middle European countries brought some new challenges. The participation of the ten countries sharpened the previous uneven development in European Union, which caught more eyes on the sensitive theme of gains and expenditures between member states. There were many problems faced with European Union, such as adjusting to new situation, upgrading the utilizing rate, eliminating gap between the poorer and the rich, achieving impartiality of income and opportunities in various regions, strengthening internal solidarity.European Union aid is not completely equal with economical and social development, because the active effect of aid is dependent on various factors. The four Cohesion Countries are good examples. East-middle European countries may learn from Ireland's experience but not necessarily copy it's modes, since there always are differences between countries. A great deal of advantages endowed with Ireland and European Union aid play roles simultaneously, creating Ireland miracle. There are a lot of factors that are took into consideration when implementing European Union aid, of which problems are paid more attentions. The experience of European Union provides a good example.The conclusion analyzes the significance of European Union aid for other regional organizations and countries. The differences in system and mechanisms between other regional organizations and European Union, become problems that should be paid more attention when learning from European Union. Alike many other countries in the world, China faces serious regional disparities. Learning from European Union and Ireland may be beneficial to harmonious development in the society.