EVOLUTION OF INTERNAL COHESION AND SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AT THE COUNTRY SCALE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

The objective of this research is to analyse, at country level, the trajectories of internal cohesion in the European Union for the period 2000-2015. At the same time, the information generated has made it possible to identify groupings of countries through a cluster analysis in regard to the joint performance of growth, convergence, development and cohesion. Specifically, the trajectory of each country is compared with the nearest cluster. These groups will serve to redesign the general and specific policies of large areas that are directed at achieving the objectives of the current strategy (2014-2020) and the future strategy (2021-2027).