@article{article_497970, title={The ‘Territorial Agenda of the European Union’ as a turning point in the European territorial cohesion policies}, journal={International Journal of Social Sciences and Education Research}, volume={5}, pages={91–104}, year={2019}, DOI={10.24289/ijsser.497970}, author={Kaya Altay, İclal and Ahmeti, Shqiprim}, keywords={Territorial Agenda,Territorial Cohesion,Cohesion Policy,Territoriality}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;"> <i> <span style="font-size:9pt;line-height:115%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">It
is considered that, albeit implicit, the EU has had an implicit territorial
approach from its inception. Europe’s economic geography is characterised by
large regional disparities, which direcyly effect its territoriality. Response
to dispariries is regional policy, now called cohesion policy. The concerns on
how to tackle territorial dimension of EU policies more systematically made way
for an EU territorial cohesion policy. Everything finalized with ‘Territorial
Agenda of the European Union,  followed
by The First Action Programme. This paper is structured by a descriptive
language while deduction  method is used.
It refers to official documents as well as books, articles and assessments related
to topic. The scope of this paper covers, besides the Agenda itself, background
of Territorial Agenda of EU including territorial cohesion thinking.  </span> </i> </p> <p> <i> </i> </p> <i> </i>}, number={2}, publisher={Mahmut DEMİR}