Cooperation between European regions has always driven inclusion and cohesion. In this workshop, with two CoR members as speakers and a local politician as moderator, we will focus on positive and successful experiences of cross-border and transnational cooperation in bottom-up processes. The emphasis will be on different forms of cooperation, from macro-regions (e.g. EUSALP and EUSAIR) to networks that have been active for 30 years or more (e.g. Arge Alp and the Four Motors for Europe network).
- Territorial | Local and regional | INTERREG | Governance and Public administration | Cohesion
- Code: 10WS23406
- Jacques Delors building, JDE 53
Speakers
Moderator
Practical information
- When
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Tue 10/10/2023, 16:30 - 17:30 CET
- Where
- Jacques Delors building, JDE 53
- Type of partnership
- NONE
- Format
- Workshop
- Theme
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Breaking barriers to cross-border cooperation
- Languages
- English, Italian
- Websites
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http://www.regione.lombardia.it
http://www.regione.vda.it
https://www.europaregion.info/en/
https://www.regione.marche.it/Entra-in-Regione/Delegazione-Bruxelles
https://www.regione.marche.it
https://www.en.regione.lombardia.it/wps/portal/site/en-regione-lombardia
Partners
Document
euregionsweek2023_cooperation-beyond-borders
Reporting
Session summary
The workshop "Cooperation between borders in times of crisis", held at the Committee of the Regions, was attended by Luciano Caveri, Councillor for European Affairs of the Region of Valle d'Aosta, Andrea Putzu, Regional Councillor of the Region of Marche and Elisa Bertò, Secretary General of the EGTC Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, and moderated by Raffaele Cattaneo, Undersecretary for International and European Affairs of the Regione Lombardia.
Putzu stressed the importance of the role of the Intergroups on macro-regional strategies in the Committee of the Regions, and in particular that of the Adriatic-Ionian strategy, which is one of the most active.
Caveri recalled the numerous cross-border actions and operations in Valle d'Aosta, a traditional border area, while Bertò placed the issue of territorial cooperation at a crucial political crossroads for the future of Europe: on the one hand, the Europe of peoples and regions, and on the other, the Europe of 27 states where national interests prevail.
In his conclusions, the moderator presented the issue of cross-border and territorial cooperation as a paradigm of a different model of Europe, in which territories and local communities, together with the institutions that govern them, are fully part of the European construction process; a model that can become the antidote to the loss of confidence in the European institutions and to the temptation of centralism.
