The Regional Dimension of the European Union:

The 1990s have seen intense debates about the role of regions in European integration. Changes in EU structural funding rules, the innovations of the Maastricht treaty, and the growing importance of federal and regional government within EU member states have all boosted the significance of regional tiers of government in EU politics. Taken together their effect has been to shift the balance of decision-making responsibility within the EU to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (union) and second (nation-state) levels. As a result, a system of multi-level governance can increasingly be identified, in which different levels of government adopt different roles in different fields or phases of the European policy process.

Preface
The Politics of the Third Level	p. 3
An Actor-Centred Approach to Multilevel Governance	p. 20
The Belgian Sub-National Entities in the European Union: Second or Third Level Players?	p. 41
Farewell the Third Level? The German Lander and the European Policy Process	p. 56
Austria: The Case of a Federal Newcomer in European Union Politics	p. 76
Building a Third Level in Europe: Prospects and Difficulties in Italy	p. 96
The French Case: The Exception or the Rule?	p. 117
Europeanization in a Centralizing State: Multi-Level Governance in the UK	p. 131
Representing Regions in Europe: The Committee of the Regions	p. 147
Inter-Regional Associations and the European Integration Process	p. 166
Regional Information Offices in Brussels and Multi-Level Governance in the EU: A UK-German Comparison	p. 183
Conclusions: Sub-National Authorities and 'European Domestic Policy'	p. 204
Index	p. 211
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The Regional Dimension of the European Union: Towards a Third Level in Europe?

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