This book is the first monograph-form legal study on multilevel governance in the EU and represents a radical change in the approach to this topic. Particularly

Decision-making within the EU has moved to a third (regional) level of government emerging in the EU policy process alongside the first (Union) and second (memb

This book explores the role and status of local and regional authorities (also referred to as 'subnational authorities' or 'SNAs') in European Union law, and re

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