Multi-level Governance or Multi-level Meta-governance : Perspectives of the Post-2027 Cohesion Policy

Kaiser, Tamás and Fási, Csaba (2026) Multi-level Governance or Multi-level Meta-governance : Perspectives of the Post-2027 Cohesion Policy. In: Central and Eastern European eDem and eGov Days 2025 (CEEeGov 2025). ACM Press, New York, pp. 10-16. ISBN 9798400721977

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Abstract

The paper examines the perspectives of the European Union's cohesion policy post 2027 based on the theoretical framework of multi-level governance (MLG) and meta-governance, and the experience of the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Its starting point is that the governance of the cohesion policy has gradually moved towards a more centralized and performance-based model of efficiency, which is even more pronounced in the operation of the RRF. However, an efficiency-based and performance-oriented development policy cannot do without the active participation of territorial, local, economic, and social actors in partnership. Based on an analysis of the international literature, EU documents and expert material, the paper argues that the effective implementation of the post-2007 cohesion policy requires a renewal of the MLG, which, based on the experience of the RRF, could be based on meta-governance and its sub-variants, in particular multispatial meta-governance (MMG).

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