Determinants influencing obtaining of the EU funds by communes of the Wielkopolska Province

The article is aimed at presenting the determinants that influence obtaining of the EU funds by communes during the programming period 2004-2006. Intentionally, attention has been focused on communes, since they actively participated in the use of the EU support and they are the local government units that gained the largest share of these funds. Territorial range, on the other hand, includes the Wielkopolska Province due to the high level of the absorption of EU funds, both from the period 2004-2006 as well as 2007- -2013