ASPECTS REGARDING REGIONALISM, REGIONALIZATION AND INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION IN EUROPE
ASPECTS REGARDING REGIONALISM, REGIONALIZATION AND INTERREGIONAL COOPERATION IN EUROPE

Summary/Abstract: The starting point of the regionalization phenomena is represented by the regional disparities or by the awareness of their existence. This awareness will generate the action of the national governmental structure or of some supra-statal institutions or entities which aim at the decentralisation or de-concentration on a level of a region of some activities or attributions on the level of the central apparatus. Therefore, the action takes place overhand in the sense of accomplishing administrative changes which are the result of a central policy regarding the local/intermediary structures. If the regionalism refers to a group, a community that is to its identity and action, the regionalization refers to a space, an organizational frame. Being appreciated as an overhand movement, the regionalism involves the awareness of the common interests – the region is appreciated as a homogenous territory of the citizens and therefore appears their desire to work along. We can appreciate the formation of a ”regional awareness”, the community in the region considering that it can solve alone more fluently the problems related directed to it, rather than if they are in the appanage of the state, which cannot be plied correspondingly on the regional particularities. The regionalism is centred on the idea that the region is characterized by a framework of human, cultural, language traits authorizing the creation of a political structure for which a lower or a large autonomy should be accepted.

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