Concluding Reflections on Europeanising Metropolitan Policies

Abstract

This chapter recapitulates the extent to which metropolitan regions have become a European policy issue. Therefore, the first section reflects the central empirical findings and connects them to the theoretical arguments developed in the first part of the study. In a second step, this chapter relates the understanding gained of the European dimension of metropolitan policies to the wider scholarly debate on the Europeanisation of subnational policies and metropolitan regions. Thereby, I discuss the contribution but also the methodological limitations of the chosen comparative–interpretive approach to metropolitan policies in the European multi-scalar polity, and finally, point out directions for future research.