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European Regions Perspectives, Trends and Developments in the 21st Century This publication has been produced as part of the research project REGIOPARL | Regional Parliaments Lab in cooperation with Forum Morgen. Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National- bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http:// dnb.d-nb.de This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (BY-SA) which means that the text may be remixed, build upon and be distributed, provided credit is given to the author and that copies or adaptations of the work are released under the same or similar license. 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Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld Proofread by Graeme Currie Printed by Majuskel Medienproduktion GmbH, Wetzlar Print-ISBN 978-3-8376-5069-3 PDF-ISBN 978-3-8394-5069-7 EPUB-ISBN 978-3-7328-5069-3 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839450697 Printed on permanent acid-free text paper. Contents Preface................................................................................. 9 European Regions Perspectives, Trends and Developments in the 21st Century Elisabeth Donat, Sarah Meyer.............................................................. 11 I. Regional Identity – a Citizens Perspective Regional Identity between Inclusion and Exclusion Elisabeth Donat .......................................................................... 25 Regional Europeans The Relationship between Social Identities and EU Support in Austria Katrin Praprotnik......................................................................... 43 Ambiguous Identities at the Rhine border Failures and Successes of Europeanisation in a Pioneering Laboratory of European Integration Camille Dobler ........................................................................... 59 II. Regions in a Turbulent EU – Political and Legal Manifestations Regional Identities in Europe Their Manifestations in Constitution- and Policy-Making Karl Kössler .............................................................................. 83 Scottish Independence The Romantic Game Andreas Rahmatian ...................................................................... 99 True Bavarians The Volatile Identity Politics of Born Regionalists Roland Sturm ............................................................................ 117 III. Unintended and Intended Consequences of EU Programs on Regional Developement Can Money Buy Love? The Impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European Identity Fabian Landes .......................................................................... 129 The EU’s Regional Investments After the Financial Crisis Paradigm Change or Business as Usual? Moritz Neujeffski ........................................................................ 145 Cross-border Cooperation in Central Europe A Comparison of Culture and Policy Effectiveness in the Polish-German and Polish-Slovak Border Regions Urszula Roman-Kamphaus............................................................... 163 IV. Still Dreaming of a “Europe of Regions”? On the Interplay of Regions in the EU New Multi-Level Governance in the EU? The European Committee of the Regions and Regional Diversity Justus Schönlau ........................................................................ 195 Small is Beautiful? Identity and Placism in Europe Claire Wallace............................................................................ 211 ‘Europe of the Regions’ A Genealogy of an Ambiguous Concept Ulrike Guérot............................................................................ 231 Authors Register ................................................................... 245 Preface The idea of this edited volume emanated from the conference ‘Redefining Regi- ons in Europe’, which took place at Danube University Krems (Austria) in January 2019. This conference was the kick-off event to the project ‘REGIOPARL I Regional Parliaments Lab’, an international research project located at Danube University Krems that is supported by and conducted in cooperation with Forum Morgen. REGIOPARL is a multiannual comparative research project that focuses on the role of regional actors in the EU multilevel system of governance. At the same time, it aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on the future of the EU from a regional perspective. The conference’s main objective was to open the field by gathering various ap- proaches to the definition and study of regions in Europe from several scholarly disciplines. This interdisciplinary perspective was deliberately chosen at the be- ginning of a project that is mainly located in political science. The various contri- butions to the conference clearly revealed the importance of questions related to collective identity – and regional identity in particular – when studying the mul- tifaceted role of regions within the larger political and legal framework of the EU governance system. This is the reason why