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Regional policy as an integral part of development policy supports the achievement of the objectives at national level and helps in the best way to exploit the development potential of regions and territories, provides external (exogenous) factors of economic growth, and supports the creation of regional identities in the economic, social and cultural dimension through the construction of multilevel governance. This article presents basic issues regarding the genesis and development of regional policy in Poland, as well as the goals and challenges of a new regional policy.