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Green Paper on territorial cohesion: "Still no definition of territorial cohesion!"
The Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) regrets that the European Commission's Green Paper on territorial cohesion adopted on 6 October 2008 does not include a definition of the concept of territorial cohesion.
A clear and unique definition of territorial cohesion in the Green Paper would have avoided letting Member States lead their own national cohesion policy as opposed to a true pan-European cohesion policy, says CEMR policy officer on cohesion Policy, Boris Tonhauser. If we want to foster cohesion in the European Union, we should first agree on what territorial cohesion means.
The term territorial cohesion was already mentioned in the ...
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