The article shows the classification systern of regional statistics (NUTS) of the European Union, the practice of regional supports in EU, its priorities, types of regions and the criteria for defining them. It is the very system we should know about and apply in the Hungarian practice....

This article considers the relationship between centralised, exogenous institutions and the embedded, endogenous institutions of rural governance in Europe through an examination of the evaluation procedures of the European LEADER programme. LEADER is presented in the literature as progressive...