Despite the lack of competence on the matter, through time the European Union (EU)
developed a number of spatially relevant concepts, initiatives and sectoral directives. An EU …

The “Smart territory” concept emerges strongly not only as an extension of the smart city
concept but also in opposition to it. The “smartization” of cities can produce a digital gap in …

Clifton J., Díaz-Fuentes D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez M. Public infrastructure services in the
European Union: challenges for territorial cohesion, Regional Studies. Territorial cohesion …

Cohesion Policy is the main investment policy of the European Union (EU), supporting the
development of regions since the end of the 1980s. Besides its relevant impact on …

Sustainable development is a key feature of national, European Union and global
development strategies. The main research goal is to provide evidence on how impactful …

Purpose The purpose of this research is to study what factors influence European citizens in
their interaction with government in the EU regions. It analyses the differences across …

Territorial cohesion, recognized by the Treaty of Lisbon, has been subject to various policy
and academic debates. Despite various efforts to operationalize it, territorial cohesion has …

Location policies of public services such as health care have a great impact on urban and
regional structures. Hence, we criticise the general failure of national public sector policies …

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate the concept of territorial cohesion in the context of
2014–2020 Cohesion Policy. The main goal is to investigate how European Union (EU) …

Territorial cohesion is a formal EU policy goal since 2010, when it was placed in the Lisbon
Treaty, alongside the long-term EU goals of economic and social cohesion. Understandably …