Weekly Entrie TABLE OF CONTENT Key issue1 Relevance of the issue 1 Current example 1 Critical analysis2 Discussion 2 REFERENCES 3 Key issue Regional polarization Relevance of the issue Regional polarization is defined as the divergence of political attitudes to ideological extremes. The spatial and regional polarization and disparities developed in EU regions have caused serious imbalance in terms of development and employment in non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas (Beugelsdijk, Klasing and Milionis, 2017). With the rapidly increasing