In the Treaty of Lisbon it is established that the European Union pursues the goal of the economic, social and territorial cohesion. In this way a new concept has been introduced both in the political-institutional and scientific debate - exactly the one of the territorial cohesion - on which...

In this paper it has been analysed whether and how the Agency for Territorial Cohesion, just recently established and intended to replace the Department for Development and Cohesion Policies, can fit in the complex system of multilevel governance envisaged as per the Community rules for the...