On Wednesday 31 May, the European Commission announced that it wanted to repeat what had been deemed a fruitful exercise carried out in eastern Poland to support low-income and low growth regions.
It should be pointed out that according to official European definitions, a low growth region is one that has per capita GDP of up to 90% of the European average but which has failed to converge towards this average between 2000 and 2013. This mainly involves regions in Greece, Spain, Italy and...