10 years after [antikvár]

This volume is our latest contribution to the book series "Together for Europe" that have all been dealing with the current issues of the European Studies. The former volumes focused on the Spanish-Belgian-Hungarian (SBH) team presidency (9th-11th), the Lisbon Strategy and the EU2020 Strategy (12th), the European Danube Strategy (EUSDR) (13th-l4th), whereas the next edited volumes on the global crisis and on the catching up process of the new member states (NMS) within the EU (15th-18th volumes). The nadonal and regional competitiveness in the EU has also become a central topic with special regard to the organic link between the EU2020 Strategy and the post 2013 cohesion policy presuming new approaches and radical reforms in the spirit of socio-economic convergence, economic competitiveness, territorial development and policy coordination.Against this background, in 2010 the four year project on the "New forms of multi-level governance in the European Union and Hungary" began with the support of the Hungarian National Research Fund (OTKA) and devoted special attention to the relationship of multi-level governance (MLG) and differentiated integration, including the emerging paradigm-shift of cohesion policy in the EU. The aim of this research programme was to explore the various forms of MLG while putting emphasis on the main socio-economic and environmental challenges addressed by the new EU macro-regional strategies. It has incorporated the new modes of differentiated integration at the transnational level, the re-territorialisation of identities as a potential identity building strategy, the nature of territorial and social capital as regional and national attachment of EU citizens, the key points and dilemmas of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR), and among others, the scale and scope of the integrated development approach that strongly highlights the "efficiency challenge" of cohesion policy in general and macro-regional strategies in particular. The wide-ranging implementation process of the EUSDR made it clear that the strategy itself constitutes a "complex governance challenge" that requires a common institution-building process according to the new forms of MLG. The members of the research team have attended a series of international conferences that offered a good occasion to discuss the theoretical framework and practical implications of the emerging new forms of MLG and territorial cooperation as well as to disseminate the results of their research and to introduce their published volumes: Agh, Attila, Tamás Kaiser and Boglárka Koller (eds) (2010) Europeanization of the Danube Region: The Blue Ribbon Project, Budapest: Blue Ribbon Research Centre, King Sigismund College, Budapest.Ágh, Attila, Tamás Kaiser and Boglárka Koller (eds) (2011) The New Horizons for the Cohesion Policy in the European Union: The Challenge of the Danube Strategy Blue Ribbon Research Centre, King Sigismund College, Budapest. Agh Attila, Kaiser Tamás és Koller Boglárka (szerk.) Többemeletes vagy többsebességes? A differenciált integráció változatos formái az EU-ban (Multifloor or Mul-tispeed? The various forms of the differentiated integration in the EU), Blue Ribbon Research Centre, King Sigismund College, Budapest.