Infrastructure in Greece: an appraisal of the aid of the Community Support Frameworks 1989-2006

Abstract

The article attempts an overview of the contribution of EU aid to basic infrastructure (transport, environment, telecommunications, energy, health-care, culture) in Greece from the first CSF 1989-1993 until CSF 2000-2006. The purpose of the article is not to assess the progress of EU aid in infrastructure in detail, but to give a comprehensive and concise picture of this. After a brief introduction and some theoretical assumptions, the paper analyzes the objectives of planning in each period for infrastructure in the horizontal level of the sectoral programs and the results of their implementation. In the last part there is a conclusive analysis of the problems faced by the aid for infrastructure, which opens the dialogue for the identification of the (political) reasons, since many of the problems still exist today.