The RCI has always shown a remarkable gap between capital/metropolitan regions and the rest of the country.
The question is: are these gaps between the capital and the rest of the country increasing or can we find an indication of catching-up?

The Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) allows regions to monitor and assess their development over time and compare with other regions

COVID-19 has had varied direct impacts in different EU regions. Explore a selection of interactive maps and charts presenting the regional pattern of excess deaths in 2020-2021.

The Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) has been measuring the major factors of competitiveness over the past ten years for all the NUTS-2 level regions across the European Union. The Index measures with more than 70 comparable indicators the ability of a region to offer an attractive and sustainable environment for firms and residents to live and work.

Cohesion policy is the EU’s main investment policy, providing funding equivalent to 8.5% of government capital investment in the EU, a figure which rises to 41% for the EU 13 and to over 50% for a number of countries.

This figure compares the allocations of Cohesion Policy per Member State (available on this open data platform) to public investment (Gross fixed capital formation by general government). This is usually referred as total public investment.

Eurostat series:
Title: Government revenue, expenditure and main aggregates
Code: gov_10a_main
See also metadata https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/gov_10a_main_esms.htm for details concerning national accounting conventions.

Cohesion policy is the EU’s main investment policy, providing funding equivalent to 8.5% of government capital investment in the EU, a figure which rises to 41% for the EU 13 and to over 50% for a number of countries.

This figure compares the allocations of Cohesion Policy per Member State to public investment (Gross fixed capital formation by general government).
The source for the allocations is the cohesion open data platform and for public investment it is Eurostat and ECFIN AMECO.

The EU-SPI was developed as a measure to contribute to the "Beyond GDP" agenda and as a tool to facilitate benchmarking across EU regions.

Revealed: the historic pattern of EU investments in your country and region (NUTS-2)

Explore the 2021 EU female advantage and disadvantage indices for 235 regions using this interactive and comparative tool.