The rural development and its funding from the EU budget

The bachelor thesis deals with the rural development and its funding from the EU budget and its the goal is to evaluate the programming period 2007 2013 from the perspective of the rural development in South Bohemia. The theoretical part is oriented to the characteristics of the rural area, rural municipalities and methodologies to classify regions into urban or rural. It also explains the role of the EU regional policy regarding the rural development. There is a detailed description of objectives of the programming period from 2007 to 2013, too. In the practical part, there is a quantitative analysis, which is focused on the use of the EU funding to municipalities and its results are compared with a qualitative analysis, which was done through a questionnaire survey conducted with mayors of rural municipalities of different sizes. The results of the survey will be used for construction of comparative graphs