EditoriALLWiktor Szydarowski, ESPON EGTC Director

Bridging disparities under the Hungarian EU Presidency: ensuring accessible public services for all citizensTibor Navracsics, Minister for Public Administration and Regional Development, Hungary

The revision of the Territorial Agenda 2030 and the regions lagging behindStefano Palmieri, EESC

Cross-border cooperation improves public services in lagging regionsPavel Branda Around one-third of EU citizens live

Public service provision is essential in developing a better and sustainable economic model for EuropeLoïg Chesnais-Girard, President of the Brittany Region, President of CPMR

Access to essential services in the EU: key challenges for the most vulnerableGilberto Pelosi, Policy Officer, European Commission

Europe's rural-urban divide and the crisis of recognitionMassimiliano Mascherini, Eurofound

The Role of Public Services in the New Model of Hungarian Territorial PolicyZsuzsanna Farkas, Kristóf Orbán, Ministry of Public Administration and Regional Development, Hungary

Boosting accessibility to services of general interest in European regionsNicolas Rossignol, ESPON EGTCAssistant Director, Research and Policy

Strategies for services in shrinking placesAlison Weingarden, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD.

Inner peripherality: the case of European areas of poor access to SGIs and their socio-economic challengesGergely Tagai, HUN-REN CERS, Mar Ortega Reig, Valencia Polytechnic University, Carsten Schürmann, TCP International

Rural regions are proactive regions: learnings from a Territorial Agenda Pilot ActionSina Redlich, Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, BBSR

Bridging the skill gap in public service digitalisation in LatviaAnita Livija Rozenvalde Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia

Village caretaker service as a macro-regional best practiceGyöngyi Schwarcz, senior researcher Research Institute for National Strategy

Co-working in rural areas - a new land of possibilities?Chiara Litardi, Martina Bisello, Eurofound

Importance of cross-border service provision along the borders of HungaryRoland Hesz, Central European Service for Cross-Border Initiatives (CESCI)

Opportunities and good examples of grassroots initiatives in public service deliveryAttila Nagy, Mayor of Csetény

Changing the narrative: accepting shrinking for innovative planning in rural areasUlla Higdem and Windy Kester Moe, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Investigating roles beyond size: small towns in the European AlpsDominik Bertram & Pr. Dr. Tobias Chilla, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany