Cross-border cooperation in the EU : Euroregions amid multilevel governance and re-territorialization
Noferini, Andrea (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Ciència Política i de Dret Públic)
Berzi, Matteo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Camonita, Francesco (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Durà Guimerà, Antoni (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)

Imprint:	Routledge, 2019
Abstract:	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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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Euroregion ; Comparative analysis ; Cross-border cooperation ; Multilevel governance ; Re-territorialization
Published in:	European Planning Studies, Vol 28 Núm 1 (2020) , p. 35-56, ISSN 1469-5944

DOI: 10.1080/09654313.2019.1623973

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