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AbstractThis article re‐assesses the multi‐level governance debate and specifically the 'renationalization thesis', with respect to EU cohesion policy. It focuses on two of the principles of decision‐making under the structural funds: concentration (decisions on where the money is spent) and programming (decisions on how it is spent). The analysis takes a longitudinal approach, examining each of the policy phases from 1988 until the recent debate on the 2007–13 period. The article concludes that the role of national governments (relative to the European Commission) in key decisions on the implementation of cohesion policy has been exaggerated in the literature and that important arguments underpinning the 'renationalization thesis' are flawed.

The following paper examines the arguments about enlargement and cohesion with a summary of one of the preparatory studies undertaken for the Second Cohesion Report, as well as references to some of the Commission's own research. The paper then outlines some of the options for the future of EU regional policy, describing four possible scenarios originally put forward in a discussion paper before concluding with some questions for discussion.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Central and Eastern Europe: the dynamics of development and policy responses -- 1 The puzzles of convergence: Europe's economic history in the twentieth century -- 2 The competitiveness of Central and Eastern European countries: an analysis of the legal environment -- 3 Regional development dynamics in Central and Eastern European countries -- 4 Challenges for national regional policies in the new Member States -- 5 Policy lessons from the reconstruction of East Germany - the former German Democratic Republic -- PART II Metropolises of Central and Eastern Europe: new competitors or secondary nodes of global networks -- 6 The state of European cities and the positions of new Member States -- 7 Central and Eastern European urban regions and the knowledge economy -- 8 Metropolitan functions of Warsaw, Prague and Budapest -- 9 Spatial planning and city networks in economic development: a critique of the Polish national development strategy -- PART III Border location: an impediment or opportunity for regional development? -- 10 Economic geography and European integration: the effects on the EU external border regions -- 11 The European Union, the emerging 'Neighbourhood' and geopolitics of inclusion and exclusion -- 12 The former Iron Curtain and the new eastern external border: the impact on spatial development -- 13 International communications and borders regions: transcending the problem of scale on the boundary between Russia and the EU -- PART IV Central and Eastern Europe and the EU Cohesion policy reforms: a source of change or a defender of the status quo? -- 14 Renewing EU Cohesion policy -- 15 EU Cohesion policy: a decline behind the horizon? -- 16 EU Cohesion policy and the peripheries of the new Member States