EU regional policy between integration, regional convergence and economic growth Authors Konrad Lammers Institut für Integrationsforschung, Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, Windmühlenweg 27, 22607, Hamburg DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03183017 Abstract EU regional policy — as it exists today — was established in the course of the southern enlargement, the completion of the internal market and the introduction of the monetary union. It had been expected that poor and peripheral countries and regions could hardly draw benefits from these steps of EU integration or less than those which were already rich and located in the core of the community. Contrary to these expectations the poor countries and regions were able to catch up, in most cases considerably. It is true that presumably EU regional policy has contributed to their catching-up processes. 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