arguments are usually given for this: (1) One of the EU's key political goals is territorial cohesion, which aims at improving … Services of General Interest (SSGI) at a regional level in the EU (Humer & Palma 2013, Humer 2014). The knowledge gap when it …

. The analysis show common problems that emerges in EU level. A first aspect is related to differential accessibility to the …

of Social Services of General Interest (SSGI). Polycentricity has been a favoured spatial pattern of EU policies since … elaborations of ESPON/SeGI project (Rauhut et al. 2013) that defines SSGI as an open, normative EU policy field, nevertheless … SSGI in EU and EFTA countries. Besides a polycentricity index provided by ESPON, further explanatory/ independent variables …

TIA difficult to use for assessing the territorial impact of SGI? Previous research and EU policy documents constitute the … empirical material in this study. The analysis is focused on an ex ante evaluation of TIA and on the methodology of critical … evaluation. The findings suggest a rather limited applicability as an undefined concept (TIA) is based on another undefined …

European states. The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and several other official documents like green paper and white … paper nevertheless guarantee every EU citizen access to and availability of SSGI. Nevertheless, when it comes to share … states (the EU27 member states, the EES-countries Norway and Switzerland, and the EU accession states Croatia and Iceland …