Interesy regionalne a lobbing w Unii Europejskiej
Regional Interests and Lobbying in the European Union

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the relationship between the groups representing territorial interests and lobbying in the European Union. She points out the genesis of for-mation of representative offices of the regions in Brussels at the end of the eight-ies, highlighting the interdependence of the process and the reforms of the EU regional policy. She also draws attention to the impact of intensive cooperation between the European Commission and the regions with a kind of “avoidance” of the state -level, which according to many researchers of European integration have led to the formation of a multi-level system of power. In the later part of her work the author stresses the reasons for and motives of establishing of the region-al offices in Brussels. Activity in this direction is shown not only by the regions of federal states that have competence in the area of foreign policy, but also by the majority of the territorial entities below the central level of unitary states. Expla-nations for this phenomenon are ambiguous. The reasons for such activity of the regions include: the transfer of competences from nation-state level to the supra-national level, the mechanisms of adaptation and the Europeanization of the lob-bying activity. In conclusion, the author draws attention to the lack of research in the field of formation, evolution and importance of the territorial/regional inter-ests in the European Union, indicating their potential to explain the changes tak-ing place in the European Union Member States due to the impact caused by their affiliation with this organization.

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