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Przegląd Europejski – European Studies Quarterly

European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and EU macro-regional approach – the analysis of ten years of the strategy implementation

2020, No. 3

Marta Szulc

0000-0002-9928-305X

University of Szczecin (Szczecin, Poland)

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.3.20.2

Publication date

01.09.2020

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

Discipline

political and administrative sciences, international relations, sociology, law, economics and finance, management and quality studies, social communication and media studies

Language of publication

Polish, English

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Abstract

In 2009, the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region was created in the Baltic Sea Region. This strategy is based on the concept of a macro-regional approach that was initiated in it. The theory supporting the concept is the theory of multi-level governance (MLG). The article analyses the process of implementation of this strategy and the macro-regional approach created in it. The analysis is related to 2019’s 10th anniversary of the creation of the strategy and the macro- regional approach, which was transformed into a concept implemented also in other macro-regions of the European Union

Keywords:

EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region,macro-regional approach,theory of the multi-level governance (MLG),implementation process,macro-regions of the EU,European Union

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