Cooperation between European Border Regions

Association of European Border Regions

doi:10.5771/9783845210834

Summary

In their book the authors and co-founders of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR), Jens Gabbe and Dr. Viktor Freiherr von Malchus, examine 40 years of cross-border cooperation, its added value and its most important results and achievements.

The book describes the accomplishments of AEBR at a European level, the developments in different parts of Europe, general experience and key elements of successful cross-border cooperation, as well as the contribution of cross-border cooperation to a European integration based on regional diversity. The “European house” needs to be built from the bottom, while resting on solid foundations. And these foundations are made from the day-to-day cooperation of people, municipalities and regions across borders.

The perspectives of cross-border cooperation are of vital importance for Europe. The Treaty of Lisbon and the EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 set the framework for the future.

One thing is certain: for many years to come, cross-border cooperation will remain a political priority of the EU and a European task!

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2008
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-3390-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-1083-4
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 137
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 2 - 6
Opening address No access Pages 7 - 8 Hans-Gert Pöttering
Preface No access Pages 9 - 10 Lambert van Nistelrooij
Introduction No access Pages 11 - 11
1. Historical Background No access
2. Economic Background No access
3. The new quality of borders: meeting spaces No access
1. Conception and foundation No access
2. From small commencements to the European mouthpiece of border regions No access
3. Paving the way for the European Internal Market No access
4. Towards the 21st century No access
5. Statutes for common goals No access
1. European added value No access
2. Political added value No access
3. Institutional added value No access
4. Socio-economic added value No access
5. Socio-cultural added value No access
1. 1. Overview No access
  2. The Council of Europe No access
  3. The European Union No access
  4. Cooperation with Europe’s large regional organisations No access
  5. Cooperation with the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions (CoR) No access
2. 1. European framework conditions No access
  2. National framework conditions No access
  3. Developments in individual European areas to date No access
3. 1. Basic experiences No access
  2. Key elements of successful cross-border cooperation No access
4. 1. Introductory remark No access
  2. The added value of cross-border cooperation No access
  3. Evidence of the specifi c added value of cross-border cooperation to implementing the Lisbon Strategy No access
  4. Conclusions No access
1. 1. Overview on EU funding instruments No access
  2. Territorial Cooperation (2007-2013) No access
  3. European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) . No access
  4. Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) No access
  5. European Grouping for Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) No access
2. 1. Activities at national level No access
  2. Development policy measures in border regions at regional/ local level No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The overall aim of the new AEBR-typology and explanation of its underlying approach No access
  3. Concluding remarks on the “usability” of the new AEBR-typology No access
4. Future tasks of AEBR No access
5. Cross-border cooperation – a European issue and a policy objective for the EU No access
Bibliography No access Pages 105 - 116
Annex: 1. Members of the Executive Committee 2007/2008 No access Pages 117 - 119
Chronology: History of the Association No access Pages 120 - 134
Map: Crossborder Cooperation Areas 2007 No access Pages 135 - 137