The ‘Territorial Agenda of the European Union’ as a turning point in the European territorial cohesion policies

Authors : İclal KAYA ALTAY, Shqiprim AHMETİ

Pages : 91-104

Doi:10.24289/ijsser.497970

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Publication Date : 2019-04-01

Article Type : Conference Paper

Abstract :It is considered that, albeit implicit, the EU has had an implicit territorial approach from its inception. Europe’s economic geography is characterised by large regional disparities, which direcyly effect its territoriality. Response to dispariries is regional policy, now called cohesion policy. The concerns on how to tackle territorial dimension of EU policies more systematically made way for an EU territorial cohesion policy. Everything finalized with ‘Territorial Agenda of the European Union,  followed by The First Action Programme. This paper is structured by a descriptive language while deduction  method is used. It refers to official documents as well as books, articles and assessments related to topic. The scope of this paper covers, besides the Agenda itself, background of Territorial Agenda of EU including territorial cohesion thinking. 
Keywords : Territorial Agenda, Territorial Cohesion, Cohesion Policy, Territoriality