Cohesion policy

The European Commission published a “Harmonised definition of cities and rural areas”, based on precise population density rates. One of the purposes of this classification will be to have a precise overview of the funding distribution in the framework of the 2014-2020 period of cohesion policy, for instance in domains like employment or education.
 
This “new degree of urbanisation” defines three categories of local government : cities (or urban centres), towns and suburbs and rural areas.