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(Re)defining the Euroregion Concept

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  • Eduardo Medeiros

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The INTERREG-A, the largest of the Community Initiatives, has been supporting the cross-border cooperation (CBC) in European Union (EU) territory, over the past 19 years, thus contributing to redraw a new political map of Europe, by reducing the barrier effect and reinforcing common development strategies. During this period, several new partnerships and institutions have been established, creating networks that connect a wider range of local and regional actors into the CBC process, on both sides of the borders. Some of these entities have gradually started to call themselves Euroregions, based on non-rigid criteria, even though, in some cases, they lack legal personality and operate on an informal basis. Moreover, it was recently approved by the European Commission the possibility to establish European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation, with legal personality, in border areas, to overcome the obstacles to the CBC process. Therefore, in this article, we propose a new CBC typology which looks at the concept of Euroregion in a geographical perspective, supported on different criteria and adapted to the present-day reality of the European border territories.

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  • Eduardo Medeiros, 2011. "(Re)defining the Euroregion Concept," European Planning Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 141-158, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eurpls:v:19:y:2011:i:1:p:141-158
    DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2011.531920
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    1. Halyna LYTVYN & Andriy TYUSHKA, 2020. "Rethinking the Governance-Governmentality-Governability nexus at the EU's Eastern Frontiers: the Carpathian Euroregion 2.0 and the future of EU-Ukrainian Cross-Border cooperation," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 11, pages 146-183, November.
    2. Katarína Melichová & Lukáš Varecha, 2020. "Endogenous Political, Institutional, Cultural, and Geographic Determinants of Intermunicipal Cooperation—Evidence from Slovakia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-25, January.
    3. Tomasz Studzieniecki & Andrzej Jakubowski & Beata Meyer, 2022. "Key conditions for Euroregions development at external EU borders: A case study of the Polish–Belarusian borderland," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(4), pages 718-739, August.
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    8. Joanna Kurowska-Pysz & Rui Alexandre Castanho & Luís Loures, 2018. "Sustainable Planning of Cross-Border Cooperation: A Strategy for Alliances in Border Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(5), pages 1-26, May.

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