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European Urban and Regional Studies, Vol. 10, No. 2, 153-171 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0969776403010002004

Cross-Border Regions in Europe

Significance and Drivers of Regional Cross-Border Co-Operation

Markus Perkmann

University of Warwick, UK

The 1990s have seen a strong surge in the number of cross-border regions all over Western and Eastern Europe. The article analyses the emergence of these local cross-border institutions in public governance by addressing their context, dimensions and causal underpinnings. First, it offers a brief background on the history of cross-border regions in Europe and related EU policies to support them. Second, it provides a conceptual definition of cross-border regions and their various forms and positions within the wider context of other transnational regional networks. Third, it analyses the empirical dimensions of European cross-border regions, including their frequency, geographic distribution and development over time. It concludes by linking cross-border regions and their various forms to institutional conditions in specific countries as well as the effects of European regional policy. It is argued that small-scale cross-border regions have flourished in particular because of their increasingly relevant role as implementation units for European regional policy in a context of multi-level governance.

Key Words: cross-border co-operation • cross-border region • EU • Euroregion • Interreg • interregional co-operation


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