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The basic aim of the article is to fi nd the determinants of economic growth in a selected EU regions. The research embraced the years of 1995-2007 and it was conducted for all the regions of EU-15. As a result of research, according to the process of convergence, the crucial factor in the economic growth process was the initial level of GDP per capita.The important element of growth in the indicated period were also the euro currency membership and the localization (regions of large countries Spain and Great Britain).