Whereas regionalism has been developing a European dimension through the mobilization processes of regions in Brussels through their representation offices and within the intra-state channels, the existence of some development regions, such as the Romanian ones, seems to fail their purpose. The starting point approaches the perspective of the active mobilization processes of actors from the German Land Saxony-Anhalt. The paper offers a historic institutionalism analysis of how Saxony-Anhalt emerged after 1990 and has been active within European multi-level governance processes and why the relations of the different tiers of territorial communities and government in Romania could not overcome the fears of regionalization that should enable the development of regional territorial politics. The paper looks into what Romanian authorities should still learn in order to deepen its Europeanization and de-communization, the great difference between Saxony-Anhalt and Romanian regions being the way of tackling territorial politics after 1990.
