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The study investigates regional policy and particular types of cohesion in the context of pursuit of regional cohesion. On the one hand, attention is paid to the territorial cohesion, which encompasses economic and social cohesion. On the other hand, the author discusses EU regional cohesion policy, fulfilling the challenges of the Strategy Europe 2020. These can be summarized as three dimensions in which the individual kinds of cohesion are implemented: intelligent growth – social and territorial economic cohesion; sustainable growth – economic and territorial cohesion; strengthening of social integration – social cohesion.