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HOW CURIOUS…. TERRITORIAL COHESION MAKES A COMEBACK!
We thought it was dead, a “has-been”,
sacrificed on the alter of harsh world competition and the inevitable
struggle between regions for their share of the global economy
cake. But, following several successive initiatives, it is back
in the limelight.
The
Dutch government, in the first instance, in association with
the CPMR, organised a welcome seminar at the end of June on
the topic of “the territorial agenda” in the Union
with a view to preparing a major event on this subject in Leipzig
in May 2007, during the German presidency. The speakers called
for a European territorial cohesion policy as one of the basic
factors needed to ensure that everyone can participate in competition.
The European “territorial model” thus appears to be
as important, if not more so, historically, than its “social
model”.
In passing the regional policy budget for the next 7 years,
the European members of parliament and the Commissioner expressed
once more their concerns that the fundaments of the policy of
cohesion was being harmed in the name of short-term boosting
of territories that are already competitive on the world scene.
And it is not the last interim Report on the differences in
wealth in various European regions that will contradict these
concerns, as these differences are growing.
Thus
the need for a long-term sustainable European regional policy
is even greater. Whether it disappears or develops in 2014,
it will be one of the major items on the agenda of the meetings
of Heads of State and Government in 2008-2009. It is the principal
instrument through which the European Union, as it expands and
as the world economy develops, has been able to ensure that
its citizens can adapt and maintain solidarity...
Xavier
Gizard
Secretary General of the CPMR
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GLOBALISATION
ALSO MEANS THE FIRST WORLDWIDE MEETING OF REGIONS !
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by Enrico Mayrhofer
The Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions of Europe (CPMR)
and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised
a discussion seminar on “The Place of the Regions in Globalisation”
on 23 and 24 June 2006, at the invitation of Carlos Manuel César,
President of the Autonomous Government of the Azores in Portugal...
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ENEKO
LANDABURU AGREES WITH JACQUES DELORS: DECISION-MAKING
ON INVESTMENTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS BEST DONE AT
REGIONAL LEVEL
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by Julie Gourden
Eneko
Landaburu is the Director-General of External Relations at the
European Commission. At the seminar on globalisation on 23-24
June in the Azores, he delivered a speech entitled “The
European Union and globalisation, the place of the Regions”.
Michel
Barnier, former European Commissioner and former French Foreign
Affairs Minister also expressed his views on Political and Economic
Governance during the seminar...
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ZICOSUR,
A LATIN-AMERICAN CPMR
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Interview
by Enrico Mayrhofer
ZICOSUR
(Assembly of Governors of the central-west South American Integration
Area) is an association of South American peripheral regions
with a population of 30 million and comprising 33 local governments
from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Chilli – a sort of
Latin-American CPMR, chaired by Juan Carlos Romero, President
of the Salta Province in Argentina...
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CPMR
SUPPORTS A BLACK SEA TRANSPORT NETWORK
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by
Patrick Anvroin
Professionals
from the transport industry and relevant public institutions
met on 6 and 7 June in Odessa – Ukraine – for the
5th Conference on “The Black Sea Area Transport Network
Formation. East-West integration”. The conference underlined
the extremely rapid development of maritime traffic in the Black
Sea and the related challenges and opportunities for logistics
specialists, harbour managers and institutions...
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A
REPORT ON THE CHANGING FACES OF EUROPE'SCOASTAL AREAS
HAS BEEN LAUNCHED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
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It
provides information on the state of the environment in the
coastal areas of Europe and provides evidence of the need for
a more integrated, long-term approach.
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