2001 Volume 4 Issue 3 Pages 020-032
The EU's Cohesion Fund , PHARE and its successor ISPA have been playing a vital role in promoting integration process through assisting betterment of transport infrastructure in the Member States and the Candidate Countries respectively. In order to assess their actual functioning and contribution to the regional development, I looked into three projects supported by the above-mentioned schemes; construction of a new airport and two underground railway lines in Athens and improvement of road network in Hungary.