CLASSIFICATION OF MATILDE REGIONS. SPATIAL SPECIFICITIES AND THIRD COUNTRY NATIONALS DISTRIBUTION

Regions – as institutions in between State and local administrations – have assumed a leading role in the process of European integration in the recent past. In the 1990s, important developments and a number of optimistic predictions accompanied the “Europe of the Regions” perspective, in which the main avenues of EU policy, seeking to overcome territorial inequalities, favour an active role of these intermediate bodies within the so-called multi-level governance approach