摘要：Considering that political regionalisation should be more than the division of a territory intoregions, its main aim being the regional development of a political entity, this paper seeks to provide answersto the following question: what is the most appropriate geographical scale to describe and support regionaldevelopment in EU and, in particular, in Romania? In order to achieve this, guided by logical analysis andusing data from specialised literature and from the studies of different national and European expert bodies,there are analysed the notions of regionalisation and regional development and brought up the issue of theinstitutional framework of regional policy instruments. These open new insights for future research. The studyconcludes that while the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) is used as a territorial analysisunit, the real local needs cannot be assessed in the same way. In fact, one aspect often overlooked is theimportance of social, economic and cultural relations between economic actors, which are proper sources ofagglomeration economies that enable a balanced development of the regions
关键词：region; regionalisation; regional development; territorial analysis unit
