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CENTRE FOR REGIONAL STUDIES OF HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

DISCUSSION PAPERS Special

ASPECTS OF LOCALITIES

III. East-Central European Regional Seminar Pécs–Orf, 7–10 October, 2010

Editor

András Donát KOVÁCS

Series editor Gábor LUX

Pécs

ISSN 0238–2008 ISBN 978 963 9899 45 2 ISBN 978 963 9899 46 9 (PDF)

© András Donát Kovács

© Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

2011 by Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Technical editor: Ilona Csapó. Language editor: Gábor Lux.

Printed in Hungary by Sümegi Nyomdaipari, Kereskedelmi és Szolgáltató Ltd., Pécs

CONTENTS

Preface

András Donát Kovács... 5 Dreams and realities in the local governance of Hungary

Ilona Pálné Kovács... 7 EU cohesion policy in the light of Lisbon and Gothenburg objectives: The case

of Italy

Giancarlo Cotella... 18 Cross-border mobility of Poles at the beginning of the 21^st Century

Marek Wickowski... 38 The effects of European integration on the development of cross-border transport

infrastructure: The example of Slovak–Polish boundary

Daniel Michniak... 45 Historical conditioning as the decisive factor in the contemporary spatial structure

of Polish agriculture

Marcin Mazur... 53 The concept of tourism cluster as a path to rural success: Slovakia, Liptov region

Vladimír Székely... 68 Agritourism in Poland – self governments’ views versus reality

Maria Bednarek-Szczepaska... 78 A suburb surrounded by farms with a specific location – environtmental attributes

of Kecskemét–Méntelek and the future prospects of the local society

András Donát Kovács... 89