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Abstract: „This article addresses the European Union's claim to establish transnational spaces through co-operation across its internal borders. Focusing on the Dutch–German borderland as an example, people's practices towards this border and their perceptions of it are introduced. It is underscored that these practices are influenced by popular representations, which (re)produce bounded spaces and the barrier effect of the border, thus making it difficult to imagine a transnational space. This observation is complemented by the phenomenon that—due to a housing shortage in the Netherlands—Dutch people have recently begun to move to German places directly on the border, although they maintain their jobs in the Netherlands. Concentrating specifically on one of these German villages, Kranenburg, the emergence of a community of transmigrants is highlighted in order to reflect upon the question of whether this form of frequent short-distance border crossing fosters a European transnational sphere.“
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„The transborder and trilingual Maas–Rhine Euroregion is often presented as a laboratory for European integration. The authorities in the region promote the image of a region that has ‘always’ been a unity, but which is divided by artificial boundaries – ‘scars of history’ – as a result of power politics. In this essay this image is confronted with the reality of the cross-border interactions and identities of the people involved. This confrontation leads to the conclusion that although there is political, economic and cultural cooperation in the region, the region is not at all politically, economically and culturally integrated. The national border as a physical barrier may have been removed, but the economic, social, juridical and cultural barriers are still there. The unification and integration of the citizens living in the region is being impeded by conflicting national systems of law and regulations, by communication and information media focused on national issues, by nationally oriented infrastructure, and especially by strongly different national cultures and identities. The consequences for European integration in general are analysed by comparing this regional integration with the national integration and nation-building policies of the past.“
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Inhaltstext: „Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage nach den ökonomischen Integrationseffekten in den Grenzräumen. Grenzregionen liegen aus nationaler Sicht mehr oder weniger peripher. Mit abnehmender Bedeutung nationaler Grenzen rücken sie aber in eine relativ zentrale Lage zwischen den betreffenden Mitgliedstaaten. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden hier empirische Untersuchungen für ausgewählte deutsch-dänische und deutsch-niederländische Grenzräume angestellt. Die Ergebnisse der Fallstudien werden anschließend vor dem Hintergrund ökonomischer Theorien und mit Blick auf die gewonnenen Erkenntnisse über die grenzübergreifende Zusammenarbeit bewertet.“
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Abstract: „This contribution elaborates on European Union (E.U.) geopolitical discourses, which attempt to overcome the ‘insignificance’ of state‐borders through the establishment of cross‐border regions. Drawing on the nonexisting Dutch‐German transnational labor market as an example, the observed ‘non‐practice’ of border crossing is introduced. ‘Significant boundaries’ and their meanings, on the other hand, are constructed by narratives and images that are not only representations, but also actively shape people's everyday life. The effects of these boundary narratives are analyzed in terms of ‘cognitive distance’, defined both as the creation of a barrier effect and the ignorance of what lies beyond, expressed as a boundary in people's minds.“
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Abstract: „The intermunicipal, cross-border co-operation in the European border regions has experienced a dynamic thrust of development in the last few years. This was facilitated by the changes in the political, legal and financial framework conditions, to which the community initiative INTERREG provided a considerable contribution. An additional factor in the Saar-Lor-Lux region is that subunits form in the actual border regions within the generously measured, regional work areas of the interregional co-operation, characterised by a fairy homogenous regional structure. Using three case examples, it is demonstrated that cross-border organisation structures have developed within these small regions on a municipal level. These are being institutionalised more and more. Using the regional development model of the network of cities, which is being discussed with regards to its cross-border applicability, we can in this context speak of local co-operation networks. In the case of the Agglomération Transfrontalière du Pôle Européen de Développement (PED) in the Belgian-French-Luxembourg state triangle, the participating local authority districts and government authorities have joined together to form an association and maintain a joint Observatoire de l'Urbanisme, responsible among other things since 1996 for the registration and processing of regional data as well as for the development of land use concepts. The M eeting of Mayors and/or the Ronde des Trois Frontières, responsible for the development of tourism in the German-French-Luxembourg Moselle Valley, are considerably less formal network structures. The co-operation between the border local authority districts was institutionalised in the Saar-Rosselle region in the form of the Intermunicipal Association for Work. The latter maintains a co-operation office with the Saarbrücken city association, principally responsible for co-ordination tasks with regards to current and developing, cross-border projects. Despite the depicted structural and legal impediments, an increased institutionalisation of the co-operations can be observed; this goes hand in hand with a topical diversification, which deincreasingly covers subject areas which have been avoided up until now because of the potential conflicts found therein, as demonstrated by the example of the joint commercial area development in the case of the Agglomération du PED. These observed case examples deal with increasingly integrated core regions within a border region which can provide important impulses for the interregional and also international dialogue. At the same time, practical measures were implemented on this level, which are perceived by the local population in day to day life and therefore have greater identity-forming effects. In this context, these measures can provide an essential or even exemplary contribution to overcoming the interior borders of the EU. These approaches can be understood as being a basis for integration "from the bottom up" which make a greater sustainability and acceptance in the various sectors of day to day living more probable, unlike the top-down forces which dominate the realisation of the European common market or the currency union.“
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- Niederlande_Provinz Geldern (Gelderland) (3)
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