Where is the local in local development

Territorial cohesion under the looking glass: Synthesis paper about the history of the concept and policy background to territorial cohesion

Concepts change depending on who uses them. First discussed by the Assembly of European Regions, Barnier invoked territorial cohesion in lieu of spatial planning for which Member States denied the Community a proper role. This against the backdrop of a European construct that casts Member States represented on the Council and the Commission into...