This conceptual paper discusses key instruments for territorial cohesion in Central and
Eastern Europe (CEE) from a comparative historical analytical perspective amidst the
neoliberalisation of EU Regional Policy, which has implications for the production and
reinforcement of spatial inequalities in regional development. The neoliberalisation
processes unfolding in the diff erent political-institutional contexts of CEE have implications
for the movement, transformation and effectiveness of policies such as Regional Policy …