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[email protected] University Teacher Consultation of the DG Regpol: Commentary on the 5 th cohesion policy report Introduction: The 5 th cohesion report of the EU is a compendium for the structural fund policy under the conditions of financial crisis.The financial crisis and the distribution of structural funds money is the part of the EU to stabilize the real economy, in comparison to the banking system and the needs of financial markets. The main topics for the year 2010 are summarized for Central Europe as far as they are covered with the policy of the structural funds,but the main aim was to calm and stabilize Austria and ist economy embedded in Central Europe. The neighbours economic politics were severly observed in the field of budget management,devaluation of the currency or any kind of large loans of the world bank.Hungary was the main weak case for the world bank and IMF to pay into the public budget,but the non-involvment of the neighbourhood is predominant for Central European economic politics. How the Central European states manage the financial crisis also with the means of the structural funds and what effect they achieve is the content of the commentary.All Central European states remained nation-states concerning their budget, except the cross-border programmes launched with Czech republic, Slovakia,Hungary and Slovenia,no surprise they are from their content a continuity of the former programmes. That means that the cross-border programmes are well equipped for culture,tourism and agriculture in order to support the border-regions in IT affairs,in training centers etc.