Regional involvement in EU trade policy: what remains after politicization?

Wallonia demonstrated the importance of regional actors for EU trade policy. What remains, however, involvement when politicization subsides, as after CETA and TTIP? Our paper provides a framework that allows prediction politicization. It posits interaction three factors is decisive: (short-term), preferences (medium-term), institutions (long-term). The more dispose institutionalised channels voice they develop endogenous preferences, less impact We demonstrate this interplay in cases Austria, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Italy. Whereas Spain Italy driven near-exclusively by politicization, German Austrian Länder will remain cooperatively involved even its absence. Belgian regions, turn, are process gradual institutionalization. study demonstrates force to be reckoned with policy, but some so than others.