CREATIVE INDUSTRY WITHIN THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL POLICY - EFFECTS AND BENEFITS

The meaning of creative industry within the European Union Regional policy structure is more and more actual because it contributes to the European prosperity and European economy is depended on the vitality of its regions. The aim of the European regional policy is to contribute to the development of backward regions in particular, the restructuring of declining industrial areas, and revitalization of deprived neighborhoods. The paper deals with the relation of creative industry and its position in current European Union Regional policy, where in the long-term run it plays determining role within the regional competitiveness enhancement. The goal of this study is by means of the EU Regional policy analysis to figure out the utilization rate of its current efficiency regarding the creative industry issue, in the way of further possible increasing of the EU regional competitiveness along with the significant role of regions relating to the overall socio-economic development of the EU.