The word “glocal” was on many people’s lips during the 7th Cohesion Forum. It was also used by the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker and the Commissioner for Regional Policy, Corina Crețu, during their respective speeches on Tuesday 27 June.
President Junker was the first to attempt to define this neologism, which will certainly be a trend over the coming months because it involves a combination of “local” and “global” in an attempt to demonstrate that...