With or Without Regionalization? Realities, Challenges and Prospects in a European Union of the Regions
With or Without Regionalization? Realities, Challenges and Prospects in a European Union of the Regions

Summary/Abstract: For some time, the European Union is facing two trends that are antithetical: the nation and the nation state with all its internal and external powers and the form of confederation or federation in the process of globalization. Italy, Spain, France and, not least, Romania are forced to face not only the trend towards regionalization upon economic and administrative criteria, but also an acute expression of nationalism as form of ethnic regions with a high degree of political autonomy if not the separation of the state they are belonging to. This study deals with the presentation of such regionalization trends, developing an argument based on the documents of the European Union and some studies of this subject. It also highlights the arguments which so far stopped the beneficial regionalization of Romania as part of the EU.

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