Core - periphery

2005 Explain why the core region is richer than the periphery (3)


The ERDF is one of several ways in which the EU has tried to reduce the differences between the richest and the poorest areas. Other attempted solutions are:

• The Common Agricultural Policy


• European Investment Bank Fund


• Structural Fund

Choose one of these attempted solutions and describe how it tries to reduce the differences between the richest and the poorest areas. (2)

2004 Describe the pattern of GNP per capita as shown on the map (4)

2003 What does fig 6 show about GNP per head and distance from the centre of Europe? (2)