Cities and urban areas have played greater and greater role in EU development process, and urban dimension is present in almost all European and Polish strategic documents. They establish development goals that cities should achieve and indicate problems they should focus on. The aim of the article is to summarize information relating to cities in European and Polish strategic documents over the last years and to create a vision of European and Polish city of the future.
Operational Programme Infrastructure and Environment (OPI&E) is the largest programme in the current programming period. EU involved in its implementation more than 28 billion EUR, which constitutes approx. 42% of all funds for the Cohesion Policy in Poland. 81% of these funds is already allocated. The programme aims at the improvement of Poland and its regions’ investment attractiveness through the development of technical infrastructure at the same time protecting and improving the condition of environment, health, maintaining cultural identity and developing territorial cohesion. Within the framework of the programme, large infrastructural investments are implemented within the scope of environmental protection, transport, power industry, culture, national heritage, health care and higher education.
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