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| The term "Euroregion" does not always clearly show the differences in aims and objectives, if they exist at all, compared with other transfrontier structures which are given different names. Moreover, the legal frameworks within which the "Euroregions" operate exhibit such a wide variety of forms that it is difficult to clearly associate one particular legal framework with the term "Euroregion".
Many of the newly established "Euroregions" in the central and eastern European countries seem to be in fact working communities and communities of interest which are forums for informal transfrontier information and consultation.
From the Council of Europe (www.coe.int)
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Inn-Salzach
Euroregion
Euroregion conformed along the Salzach
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The EUREGIO was founded in 1994 as trilateral
local association. The objective was in this case particularly
to coordinate the mutual transborder sociocultural contacts.The
field of the EUREGIO Bavarian wald grasps boehmerwald on Czech
side the four rural districts Ceský Krumlov, Prachatice,
Domazlice and Klatovy, on Bavarian side the rural districts
Cham, rain, Freyung-Grafenau, Deggendorf, Straubing, Straubing
city, Passau and Passau-Stadt. |
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Euregio
Salzburg-Berchtesgadener Land/Traunstein
As a voluntary and cooperative alliance
of municipalities from the Salzburg country and country Berchtesgadener
from the rural districts and Traunstein the EuRegio wants
to perceive the possibilities which offer themselves through
the effort of the boundary. In the interest and to the benefit
of their members, population and economy the EuRegio bases
itself on their concept which consists of following equal
leading-ideas. |
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European
Region of Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino
The region has long been - and still is
- characterized by a strong attachment to the land of the
fathers and a wish for self-government. This common background
is the main reason for the friendly relations between the
provincial governments of Tirol, Südtirol/Alto Adige
and Trentino, which go far beyond good formal relationships
of neighbouring regions. |
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Euregio
Zugspitze-Wetterstein-Karwendel
The associations of REGIO
Werdenfels of e.V., ERA/REGIO Ausserfern and lake fields plateau
(SEP) founded in the June 1998 the EUREGIO with the objective
to support the regional transborder cooperation of their members.
The EUREGIO advises members, citizens, Unternehemn, associations,
authorities and other institutions in transborder questions
and wants to strengthen the mutual understanding and the consciousness
of the mutual space in the spirit of good neighborhood and
friendly cooperation. |
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Internationale
Bodenseekonferenz
The International Lake Constance conference
(IBK) is a cooperative alliance of the countries bordering
on Lake Constance and the cantons Baden-Wuerttemberg, tub
beluga, Zurich, Thurgau, St.Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden,
Appenzell Innerrhoden, Principality of Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg
and Bavaria. The IBK objective is to promote the Lake Constance
as an area to receive natural, culture and economy space and
to support and to strengthen the regional relation. |
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West
Pannonia Euregio
The area incorporates Burgenland from Austria
and three Hungarian counties, Gyor-Moson-Sopron, Vas, Zala.
This region is older than any other in Europe. In its area
of 15 thousand km2-s, you can find mountain ranges, hills
and plains as well. Its beautiful natural values are being
protected in a unique cooperation for Central-Eastern-Europe,
that reaches beyond country borders. The results of the joint
effort are the Ferto-Hansag Natural Park, and the Orseg and
Irottko Nature Reserves. |
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Eurégion
Meuse-Rhin
The borders are the scars of the history
and comprise in particular for the frontier regions of serious
drawbacks. Indeed, the frontier zones have often been the
toy of the nations. That is worth also - or especially -
for the five partner regions of the EUREGIO MEUSE-RHINE
that often have had to change territorial membership against
their liking.
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Bosnia
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The Danube-Drava-Sava Euroregional Cooperation
is an international organization of counties and cantons,
their county or cantonal seats, and chambers of commerce
from the territories of the Republic of Hungary, Republic
of Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, established upon
the signature of the Statute in Pécs on November
28, 1998.
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Nestos-Mesta
Euroregion
The Euroregion "Mesta - Nestos" is
located in the Balkan Peninsula at the border between Bulgaria
and Greece. The Euroregion extends to the Region of Eastern
Macedonia - Thrace in Northern Greece and to the Region of
Sofia in Southern Bulgaria. As its names denotes, the Euroregion
is a geographic area with a river as a common denominator:
the river which with the name of "Mesta" springs in the mountains
of Rila in Bulgaria and with the name of "Nestos" flows into
the Aegean Sea in Greece. |
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Nis-Sofia-Skopje
Euroregion
The objectives and tasks of the Association
are
- to organise and co-ordinate the activities that promote
the co-operation between the members on the fields of economy,
ecology, culture, science and education;
- to help and assist in elaborating concrete projects and
plans concerning common interests;
- to promote and facilitate contacts between the people
living in the area of the Association including the relationship
between experts in different fields;
- to promote good neighbourly relations between its members;
- to identify potential fields of multilateral co-operation
among the members;
- to mediate and facilitate co-operation of its members
with international organisations, agencies and institutions.
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Euroregion
Egrensis
The euro area Egrensis is the field between
Germany and Tschechien along the Bavarian and saechsischen
boundary of Germany.
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Euroregion
Krušnohoří/Erzgebirge
The Krušnohoří Euroregion
is located in the border area of the northwestern part of
the Czech Republic and southern Saxony. It was created in
1995 in response to popular demand from both sides of the
border. |
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Euroregion
LABE/ELBE
A voluntary transborder community which arose through the
initiative of the regional local communities is Elbe/rennet
euro area. It was founded on the 24th June 1992 in Hstn
nad rennets.
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Euroregion
Neisse-Nisa-Nysa
To
read the OECD report
The Neisse - Nisa - Nysa Euroregion (ERN)
is a municipal partnership of three border territories at
the outer border of the EU. It involves the Czech Republic
and Republic of Poland, which are associated with the EU,
as well as the EU Member country, the Federal Republic of
Germany. This fact is important to the comparison of this
Euroregion with other Euroregions formed along the internal
boundaries of the EU, such as that at the German-Dutch border.
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Euroregion
Glacensis |
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Finland |
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Kvarken
Council
In mid-2002, the Kvarken Council was working
on eight separate projects with a combined budget of SEK 45
million. Apart from project work, the emphasis is on promoting
the interests of border regions, information activities and
networking. In addition, the Kvarken Council provides the
secretariat for the Steering Committee for Interreg IIIA Kvarken-MittSkandia.
All activities must be concrete, useful and appropriate to
border regions. |
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Euregio
Karelia
Euregio Karelia is the first Euregio- region
on the land border between the EU and Russia. Euregio Karelia
is based on the regions' long, common cultural and cooperation
traditions, as well as on experiences gained on both sides
of the border on the EU programmes and reconciliation between
different programmes. |
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Ems
Dollart Region
The Ems Dollard Region (EDR) is a cross-border
organisation in the northern Dutch-German border area. Its
aim is to establish and improve contacts between people, companies
and organisations within the border region. This website gives
you an overview of the EDR, its members and its varied activities. |
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EUREGIO
Rhein-Maas-Nord
The euregio rhein-maas-nord supports the
coexistence of Netherlanders and German in the common boundary
space with approx. 2 Mio. inhabitants. The European Union,
the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the North Rhine-Westphalia
country support these attempts through different supporting-programs.
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EuRegion
Saar-Lor-Lux Rhein
At the heart of Europe, the Great Region
is a cross-border space in which, since the years sixty, five
countries and regions are built a common future surmounting
for that the numerous kilometers of borders that have shaped
it for decades. In the course of the years, the cross-border
cooperation is institutionalized itself around several poles.
In this process, the towns are not absent. In numerous domains
(tourism, culture, education, conversion of the territory,
urbanism etc...), the cross-border cooperation can not be
translated on the ground without the participation of the
towns. |
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Freiburger
Regiogesellschaft
Under auspices of the RegioGesellschaft
the project " Council of the RegioTriRhena" was
prepared in the coordination committee of the three RegioGesellschaften
and lifted in January 1995 from the baptism. The RegioTriRhena-
council is a trinational cooperation platform for communes,
regional authorities, associations as well as economy and
science rings. In the spring 2003 the council gave a fixed
legal foundation to his trinational activities under the new
e.V. RegioTriRhena- council name. |
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EuroRegion
PRO EUROPA VIADRINA
Euroregion "Pro Europa Viadrina" is situated
right within the dynamic East-to-West trade and traffic corridor
Rotterdam-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow. The cities of Frankfurt-on-Oder,
Ei-senhuettenstadt, Gorzow and Slubice are centres of econo-mic
activity. To the West Euro-region borders with Berlin and
it offers direct access to the markets of Central and Eastern
Europe, highly-educated labour, developed estates for manufacturing
and industrial production. |
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Hungary |
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Carpathian
Euroregion
The five countries Hungary,
Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine all meet in the Center of Europe, a rural mountainous
area centering on the Carpathian Mountain range and the Tisa
River basin. The region can be characterised by economic under-development
resulting from its peripheral location and complex history
of inter-state and inter-ethnic relations. |
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Danube-Kris-Mures-Tizsa
(DKMT)
The Euroregion Danube - Kris - Mures -
Tisza was founded in 1997 and operates on the basis of a Cooperation
Protocol signed by nine local authority presidents (eight
county councils and an autonomous region) from Romania, Hungary
and Yugoslavia. As a true historical document, the Protocol
proved strong support towards the creation of the first cross
border institutions and developed intense relations between
local administrations situated on different sides of the borders. |
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Italy |
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Regio
Insubrica
La Comunità di lavoro Regio Insubrica
è stata costituita nel 1995 a Varese,dal Cantone Ticino
(Svizzera) e dalle Province di Como, di Varese e del Verbano-Cusio-Ossola
(Italia), allo scopo di promuovere la cooperazione tranfrontaliera
nella regione italo-svizzera dei Tre Laghi Prealpini e di
favorire la presa di coscienza dell’appartenenza ad
un territorio che è iscritto, al di là dei confini
istituzionali, nella geografia, nella storia, nella cultura
e nella lingua. |
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Euroregion Baltic (ERB) was established
in February 1998 as a cooperation between nine regions
of Denmark, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Sweden.
Since its early days ERB has been pursuing the goals of improving
life conditions for its inhabitants, promoting bonds and contacts
among local communities, and providing measures for a more
sustainable development within the region. |
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Euroregion
Sesupe |
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Euregio-Rijn-Waal
The Euregio Rhein-Waal would like to help
to keep on reducing the boundaries within Europe. Simultaneously
we strive for a strong economic, social and social position
of our area. The Euregio Rhein-Waal attempts this through
the realization and promotion of transborder cooperation in
the border area German-Dutch. |
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Euregio
Benelux Middengebied |
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Euregion
Scheldemond
The Euregion Scheldemond includes the Provinces
of East and West Flanders in Belgium and the Province of Zealand
in the Netherlands. European Cross-border co-operation has
developed between these provinces. |
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Poland |
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Sprewa-Nysa-Bobr
Euroregion
The German-Polish boundary area is not
center of the European integration process only due to their
situation: Here supports the increase from east and west already
lastingly. Municipalities and cities work since years together.
Infrastructure projects are planned country-extending and
realized. A new European spirit arises, through which being
able to become from former dividing lines sound combinations
of the integration. Just the variety is the fortune of Europe
which it is to maintain necessary and this variety meets at
the boundaries. |
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Tatry
Euroregion
The Cross-Border Association “Tatry”
Euroregion is a voluntary community of Polish and Slovak villages
cities and powiats (counties) – members of the Association
based in Nowy Targ in Poland and in Kiezmark in Slovakia.
The highest authority of the euroregion is the Congress gathering
at least once a year. It is composed of 70 delagates, 35 from
each side. Every two years the Congress appoints the Council
- the euroregion’s executive body. |
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Bug
Euroregion
The development of the idea of creating
an Euro-region at the junction of Belarus, the Ukraine and
Poland was being carried on from 1992. However, the trans-border
association “Euroregion “Bug” was founded
only in 1995. On the initial stage it included the Volyn region
of the Ukraine and the Lublin, Chelm, Tarnobrzeg, and Zamosc
provinces of Poland |
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Euroregion
Pomerania
Euroregion Pomerania was established in
December 1995 and is a cooperation between Germany, Poland
and Sweden. The regions concerned are mainly peripheral regions
compared to their national centres, but important because
of their Baltic Sea harbours.The goal of Euroregion Pomerania
is to improve regional cooperation, develop SME's, expand
industrial areas, joint marketing etc. The Euroregion Pomerania
has also cooperation with some Danish counties. |
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Niemen
Euroregion
The interborder union Niemen Euroregion
was formed on 6 July 1997 on the power of a multilateral understanding
concluded by representatives of Poland, Lithuania) and Grodzieńskie
Voivodeship (Belarussia). A Euroregion was established with
the purpose of intensifying social, economic and political
contacts between these areas which are connected by a common
geografical, histiorical and cultural inheritance. |
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Euroregion
Bílé-Biele Karpaty |
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Euroregion
Bílé-Biele Karpaty
Euroregion Bílé-Biele Karpaty
(ER BBK) was established by the Memorandum of Cross-border
Association dated on July 30, 2000 by the Slovak association
Región Biele Karpaty and Czech association Region Bílé
Karpaty. It was registered on Slovak side, at regional State
Administration in Trenčín, on September 28, 2000
as an association of legal entities where three sectors co-operate,
with its seat in Trenčín. |
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Euroregion
Váh-Dunaj-Ipel |
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Barents
Euro-Arctic Council The Barents
Euro-Arctic Council (BEAC) is the forum for government level
co-operation on matters concerning the Barents Region. BEAC
was established in 1993 in order to "provide impetus to existing
cooperation and consider new initiatives and proposals |
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Regio
TriRhena
Transborder committees support and support
the nachbarschaftlichen relationships, contacts help with
tying or deepening and so already different trinational projects
brought onto the way. Some of these committees are placed
in the Maison TRIRHENA Palmrain of the former customs plant
between France and Germany. This house which symbolizes the
idea of the trinationality became the turntable of the Regio
TriRhena. |
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United
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Transmanche
Region
A Co-operation Agreement was signed between
the County of Kent and the Regional Council of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
in April 1987. The aim is to strengthen cross-border understanding
and take full advantage of the Channel Tunnel.
The EUROREGION was extended to include Belgium in June 1991.
The five regions - Kent, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Brussels, Flanders
ad Wallonie, are linked by historic ties, communication networks,
common frontiers, economic and commercial flows and population
movements. |
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Rives-Manche
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