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Individual member states continuously define, redefine and defend their national interests within the European Union (EU) policy arena. On many occasions, national interests and EU policies involve a spatial dimension with implications for physical land use planning across one or more sectors. Spatial planners are relatively inexperienced in how to operate in this new context of European and national power relations, finding themselves in a unique position because the EU has no formal competence in spatial planning. However, it is acknowledged that sectoral policies exert a significant impact on the way the European territory is used. The creation of a European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) means that there is now the beginnings of a spatial policy for the entire territory of the EU.
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ten Velden, H., Stillwell, J. (2001). European Spatial Planning: National and Regional Perspectives. In: Stillwell, J., Scholten, H. (eds) Land Use Simulation for Europe. The GeoJournal Library, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0466-4_3
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