The European integration process, which has been supported by European Cohesion Policy since the end of the 1980s, is witnessing the establishment of an increasingly large number of the so-called Euroregions and similar structures, mainly as a result of experiments and projects carried out under the INTERREG community initiative, in all its strands (cross-border, transnational and interregional cooperation), in a quest to search better adequate socioeconomic development and multilevel governance solutions. This article explores the emergence of these new Governance Spaces in Europe and, in particular, in the Portuguese-Spanish border area, and aims to assess their contribution to inject new tailor-made regional/local development strategies and also to provide a conceptual clarification of these spaces, which became more relevant with the advent of the Macro-Regions that have come into being since 2007.

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Euroregion,Macro-Region,Territorial Cooperation,Territorial Governance,EGTC,INTERREG