The federal states' (and partly also unitary states' with decentralised administrations) advantages such as additional division of power and the better consideration of regional preferences and fallacies such as the trap of too strong entanglements of all levels of government are well discussed...

The inclusion of territorial cohesion in the Lisbon Treaty triggered a discussion on how to implement territorial cohesion at the EU level, but without clear results. One of the main short-comings in this discussion is the lack of awareness about the main reasoning and core objectives of...