Governance in the Eu(ro)regions

Assessing the Construction of Transborder Space Within the European Union

On September 14-15, 2001, The Nijmegen Centre for Border Research hosted an international workshop devoted to the theme of emerging patterns of governance in European cross-border regions (“Governance in the Eur(ro)egions: Assessing the Construction of Transborder Space within the European Union”). Within this forum, scholars from England, France, Denmark, the United States,

The Netherlands and Finland discussed cross-border institution-building processes currently underway in places as disparate as the Transmanche and Kent-Nord Pas de Calais Euroregions (France/ England), Euregio Karelia (Finland/Russia), Euroregion Pomerania (Germany/ Poland/Sweden) and the Oresund Euregion (Denmark/Sweden). Themes addressed included forms of institutional capacity

building at the local and regional cross-border scale, emergent processes of identity formation within transborder milieux, and the ongoing problem of “democratic deficit” within European transnational space.

A book emerging from the workshop and separately commissioned papers is now in the planning stages with a target publication date of 2003. For further enquiries regarding this event, please contact dr. Olivier Thomas Kramsch (O.Kramsch@fm.ru.nl). The principal organizer would like to thank the generous financial support of Rabobank for making the workshop possible.

In the menu on the left you will find some photographic impressions of the seminar