This book presents a contemporary broad assessment of the main dilemmas of regional development and regional policy in Central and Eastern Europe considering the influence of internal and external pressures on the regionalization process in this area.

Francesco Palermo, Ph.D. (1998), University of Innsbruck, is Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Verona, and Director of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, (EURAC). He has published widely in comparative constitutional law, minority rights, federalism.
Sara Parolari, Ph. D. (2007), University of Trento, is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, (EURAC). Her research and publications mainly focus on comparative federal and regional studies, devolution issues and fiscal federalism.