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Cohesion policy belongs among the most important fields of EU interests. Its objectives are achieved by many ways with respect to diversity among the European regions at the level of NUTS 2. The aim of this paper is to analyse relevant indicators, and via the evaluation of EU regional policy effectiveness to rewiev difference in the production-consumption patterns of behaviour of European regions; focussing on convergence and variabiliness of these regions. With defined goal in mind, the regions have been classified. To classify the regions, the relational indicator has been created. The relational indicator has been developed as the relationship between the index of relative performance and index of relative consumption sources. The changes of relational indicator, as well as the GDP per capita criterion, have been evaluated in two periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents results of the regional analysis of career structures in Pardubice Region, specifically the section of professions with university education. However, it touches some of the current issues in university education mission and legitimacy of relevant employers' expectations as well. The field research contains not only quantitative data about the current occupational structure of employees and economic characteristics of employers; but it is focused on e. g. the threat of saturation of certain professions due to higher age; missing study fields, changes in the requirements for qualification in connection with the introduction of new technologies, expansion or reduction production. The article shows the rate of professionals with university education in the Pardubice Region by sector and their internal structure. It presents the views of the Pardubice Regions employers over the future requirements of university -educated workers; evaluates the relevance of these views for decision-making regarding to the selected parameters: stability and performance of respondents as economic entities. It reflects the structure of study fields at the University of Pardubice as the main institution for saturation of the regional labour market needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides selected information about the performance of the Czech medical spa industry, as well as the various types of stay available and their respective costs. It reveals the specific ways of how medical spa care is financed in the Czech Republic and resumes that financing methods diverge from using the public finance sources towards the private ones. In this article is developed a special model to enable easy categorization, which allows the reader to quickly ascertain fundamental information on relative attributes of spa industry. The created model is usable for marketing communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]