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  • Inhaltstext: „Die bereits seit langer Zeit "durchlässige" Grenze zwischen Frankreich und Belgien entwickelte sich in den 90er Jahren immer mehr zur "offenen" Grenze. Die Durchlässigkeit betrifft nicht nur die Territorialgrenze, sondern teilweise auch die sogenannten "Systemgrenzen", z. B. den Arbeitsmarkt, Teile des Schulwesens und des privaten Gesundheitswesens. Grenzüberschreitende Aktivitäten der Bevölkerung gehören im Städtedreieck Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai zum Alltag. Vielfalt und Intensität der Aktivitäten bestätigen die These, daß sich ein grenzüberschreitender Aktionsraum im Grenzgebiet herausgebildet hat. Dieser Aktionsraum umfaßt vor allem die unmittelbar an der Grenze gelegenen Gemeinden. Grenzüberschreitende Kooperationen auf lokaler und regionaler Ebene haben dagegen erst in den letzten Jahren ein größere Bedeutung erlangt. In den 90er Jahren ist ein breites Spektrum von Kooperationen auf intraregionaler und kommunaler Ebene entstanden, die einen neuen bottom up-Ansatz der Zusammenarbeit ohne Einbeziehung zentralstaatlicher Institutionen darstellen. Den Hintergrund für das neue Interesse an einer Zusammenarbeit mit den Nachbarstädten jenseits der Grenze bildet das Ziel durch Vernetzung eine "europäische Größenordnung" zu erreichen um sich als Knotenpunkt im entstehenden Netz europäischer Metropolen zu etablieren. Trotz der Vielzahl der grenzüberschreitenden Kooperationen auf verschiedenen Ebenen (Gemeinden, Gemeindeverbände, Regionen) ist das belgisch-französische Städtedreieck ist noch weit davon entfernt eine grenzüberschreitende Metropole zu bilden. Interconnections and cooperation in the French-Belgian city triangle Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai The border between France and Belgium, which has long been regarded as "permeable", developed during the 1990s into more and more of an "open" border. The permeability pertains not only to the territorial border, but in part also to the so-called system borders, e.g. the job market, parts of the school system and the private health system. Border-transcending activities form part of the every-day life of the population in the city triangle Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai. The diversity and intensity of the activities confirm the thesis that a border-transcending activity space has developed in the border region. This action space incorporates primarily the communities in the immediate vicinity of the border. In comparison to this, it is only in recent years that border-transcending cooperations on local and regional levels have gained a greater importance. In the 1990s a wider spectrum of cooperations on the intra-regional and community levels arose, which demonstrate a new bottom-up approach to cooperation without the involvement of centralised state institutions. The background for the new interest in cooperation with neighbouring cities on the other side of the border is the aim to create an entity having a "European order of magnitude" and to establish this as a junction point in the existing network of European metropoles. In spite of the large number of border-transcending cooperations on various levels (communities, community societies, regions), the French-Belgian city triangle is still far from becoming a border-transcending metropolis.“

  • 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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