, who saw the EU as a vocational actor in the international system and who sustained institutional neoliberal conceptions … and attitudes, start doubting such hypotheses by clinging to neorealist solutions. The disfunctionalities between the EU … integration theories, such as governance and policy networks. Starting from this ambivalence, with which the EU has to deal, the …

of the EU’s territories, with a view to modernize the regions lacking economic and social development. With the major … goal of promoting economic, social and territorial cohesion, the EU’s economic development policy supports the efforts by …