ABSTRACT
EU; hence, the connection to the traditional economic core area is important. The sig-
nificance of neighbourhood programmes across the EU border areas has increased. The
EU conditionality has enhanced persuasive instruments in and outside the EU. Partner-
ship has become more important than the formal EU membership for the bordering
states. Therefore, governance of regions is challenging. Metagovernance discusses
about values, principles and possibilities for development choices but there is an
increasing tension of governance incompatibility between fixed bounded regions
based on representational democracy and continuously changing fluid regions with
various interest groups. The EU convergence aim has turned into a political issue. A
clash emerges between the pro-growth and de-growth development policies and
regions.
