ABSTRACT

Physical Environment” was designed for improving local services, increasing efficiency of

local public infrastructures, improving local employment and living quality as well as

better use of local resources. In fact, 83% of 30 million euros was invested in municipal

schools and kindergartens (Urb, 2011). Another 13.8 million euros for “improving

regional competitiveness” was invested in museums, theme parks, promenades, etc.,

labelled mainly as tourism development (Figure 4). None of the projects supported restruc-

turing of manufacturing industry (EE, 2012).