Cross-border cooperation in the EU
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 ac...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:306280 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/306280 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1080/09654313.2019.1623973 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Euroregion Comparative analysis Cross-border cooperation Multilevel governance Re-territorialization |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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