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The 'Europe 2020 Strategy' was issued in 2010 by the European Commission. This document constitutes a growth scheme for the decade 2010-2020 that aims to help the European Union to emerge from the current crisis through the so-called smart, sustainable and inclusive dimensions of growth. In this context, the basic aim of the SIESTA ("Spatial Indicators for a 'Europe 2020 Strategy' Territorial Analysis") Project has been to illustrate the territorial dimension of the 'Europe 2020 Strategy'. In other words, to show how this document acts territorially, particularly at the regional scale, but, when possible, also at the urban level. The SIESTA Project has been funded by ESPON ("European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion"), a European Commission Programme whose mission is to support policy development in relation to the aim of territorial cohesion and a harmonious development of the European territory. This book includes most of the main findings and conclusions obtained through research of the SIESTA Project. The contents were presented and discussed as keynote addresses or communications at the SIESTA Final Conference held in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, on 4-5 April 2013.

The authors argue through this paper, the importance of rethinking the recently
abandoned tools that can be reactivated in times of crisis. EU 2020 Strategy and other EU
documents create a favorable frame in order to achieve the priorities set by reconsidering
the territorial pact concept. Recent documents define the partnership agreement concept,
which seems to be more rigid and less flexible than the territorial pact. Having as a starter
point Romania's specifics, there are individualized 10 thematic territorial pacts and 8 global
pacts. They must generate territorial synergies capable of ensuring the coherence between
regions, states and the European Union as a whole.