COMPARISON OF COHESION POLICY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, HUNGARY, POLAND AND SLOVAKIA

The main goal of this article is to compare forms of cohesive policy of so called The Visegrad Four (V4), which are the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in the program period since 2007 until 2013. Those countries obtained possibility to draw financial resources from the EU funds since the day they entered The European Union. The regional policy follows three goals in the period between 2007 - 2013, for whose achievement there are 347 billion Euros in the the budget. Each from those countries must have defined its national strategy reflecting developing problems and goals. The content of the article includes strategic objectives and also the question, where goes the main portion of financial resources.