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Evolution without Learning?

The Contentious Issue of EU Regional Policy in Italy (2011–2016)

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Decisions concerning the States’ role in the economic and social development in connection to integration processes at a supranational scale constitute an area-issue that has been addressed by the European Community since its foundation. The European Community made several important steps to address this point, assuming precise responsibility and developing incrementally what might be defined its core business: building a strategic vision, a complex instrumentation, a general regulatory framework to bring Member States to act jointly, according to objectives and governance principles shared at a supranational level on the basis of open-dialogue and negotiation.

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    Francesca Gelli

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Gelli, F. (2018). Evolution without Learning?. In: Grasse, A., Grimm, M., Labitzke, J. (eds) Italien zwischen Krise und Aufbruch. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16092-0_10

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