The assistance from the EU funds is a contribution to Lithuanian economic development, upturn in the economy, better quality of life and it plays the significant role for the environmental protection. The project is the main measure for using the EU support. The EU financed projects management has a very complicated management mechanism, which involves a number of national and other interested authorities, as well as fulfils a number of necessary procedures. The management system efficiency of the water sector projects financed by the EU Cohesion fund is the research object in this work. The aim of this work consists of the project cycle analysis through the management system. There were identified significant problems in the each stage of the project cycle as well as evaluated administration capabilities of the EU support managed institutions and project final beneficiaries. There were presented proposals for the EU Cohesion fund water sector projects management system efficiency increasement.

The aim of this study is to look further into whether higher levels of EU structural fund payments to European regions come with higher levels of citizen support for European integration. The question is relevant in light of rising levels of Euroscepticism in some areas of Europe along with the momentous approval of subsidy packages following the Covid pandemic, nearly doubling the EU’s expenditures. The research question is examined using a time-series cross-sectional design, combining survey data on individual’s opinions on European integration with data on EU payments to European regions. Using a larger data set on EU payments than previous studies, the results are contrary to some previous studies focusing on the effect of EU funding in less prosperous regions, or studies using Eurosceptic voting as the dependent variable, but corroborate the results of the most recent study with similar design and data. Analyses of how the effect is conditioned on country group or level of affluence show mixed results, indicating a need for further research on the effects of EU spending on citizen support for European integration.