NEW FORMS OF GEOGRAPHICAL INEQUALITIES AND SPATIAL PROBLEMS IN GREECE

The dynamics of the restructuring of capital over the last fifteen yea rs produced new territorial realities. One fundamental aspect of this evolution, in the case of Greece, is the relative decrease of interreg ional inequalities and the strengthening and/or appearance of new intr aregional disparities. A second group of developments consist of the i ntensification of a series of spatial organisation problems that affec t both urban and nonurban areas (land-uses' conflicts, environmental c onditions, traffic). As far as the future is concerned, the determinan t framework of the 1990s will be the process of European unification. Although the implications of the spatial dimension (regional policy, e nvironmental policy, projected urban policy) of the EC policies will g enerally be beneficial, the broader implications of the above process seem much more ambivalent. The main fields of concern are: difficultie s in the participation of Greek regions in the emerging Mediterranean arc of development; retardation of growth in rural areas (as a result of the new CAP) and the increase of intraregional inequalities; and ag gravation of the conditions in the fields of land uses and the urban e nvironment (because of the increasing competition between the southern European regions, and between the European cities).