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The paper discusses the changes in the objectives of EU regional policy that have occurred over the last sixty years. The author analyses the priorities of regional policy in every programming period, geo-graphical eligibility criteria which determine financial support for particular regions and the funds used for implementing this policy. A synthetic assessment of the aforementioned issues allows the author to trace the evolution of EU regional policy from its inception to the present, with regard to the changes pro¬posed by the European Commission for the new program¬ming period.