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Cross-border cooperation in the EU : Euroregions amid multilevel governance and re-territorialization
The article focuses on Euroregions as formal organizations within the wider context of cross-border cooperation (CBC) in the EU. Nowadays, CBC promoted by Euroregions all over the European Union is a consolidating reality. Although there is an existing plurality of study-cases over the matter, we acknowledge a lack of global analysis to produce comparative data on Euroregions. We believe in the necessity to develop further systematic and comparative analyses over a wider number of aspects related to cooperation: its real efficiency, its developments either in the different sectors or specific territorial frameworks (urban, rural, etc.), the governance strategies, etc. A real understanding of the CBC promoted by Euroregions, in our view, may only arise when adding such global perspective to the separate contexts of the study-cases. By using a data set of 61 Euroregions considered as especially active in our research project, we investigates the nature, the characteristics and the goals of the actors involved in cross-border cooperation agreements. From a descriptive perspective the study aims at providing some useful classification regarding the great variety of cross-border experiences developed in Europe in the last decades. We challenge therefore common views and understandings about cross border governance: according to our findings, Euroregions are neither effective political instruments for re-territorialization nor new modes of (cross-border) multilevel governance. we instead argued in this contribution is that Euroregions are more functional-oriented organizations that have used different instruments and strategies in order to gain momentum and relevance in the cross-border space.
Cross-border cooperation in the EU : Euroregions amid multilevel governance and re-territorialization
The article focuses on Euroregions as formal organizations within the wider context of cross-border cooperation (CBC) in the EU. Nowadays, CBC promoted by Euroregions all over the European Union is a consolidating reality. Although there is an existing plurality of study-cases over the matter, we acknowledge a lack of global analysis to produce comparative data on Euroregions. We believe in the necessity to develop further systematic and comparative analyses over a wider number of aspects related to cooperation: its real efficiency, its developments either in the different sectors or specific territorial frameworks (urban, rural, etc.), the governance strategies, etc. A real understanding of the CBC promoted by Euroregions, in our view, may only arise when adding such global perspective to the separate contexts of the study-cases. By using a data set of 61 Euroregions considered as especially active in our research project, we investigates the nature, the characteristics and the goals of the actors involved in cross-border cooperation agreements. From a descriptive perspective the study aims at providing some useful classification regarding the great variety of cross-border experiences developed in Europe in the last decades. We challenge therefore common views and understandings about cross border governance: according to our findings, Euroregions are neither effective political instruments for re-territorialization nor new modes of (cross-border) multilevel governance. we instead argued in this contribution is that Euroregions are more functional-oriented organizations that have used different instruments and strategies in order to gain momentum and relevance in the cross-border space.
Cross-border cooperation in the EU : Euroregions amid multilevel governance and re-territorialization
Noferini, Andrea (author) / Berzi, Matteo (author) / Camonita, Francesco (author) / Durà Guimerà, Antoni (author)
2019-01-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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