Eurodistrict
A Eurodistrict (French: eurodistrict ) is a cross-border cooperation area. It usually comprises a metropolitan area with cities and parishes in two or more states.
The Eurodistricts have their origin in the initiative Eurodistrict eV of 1989 VR Kehl 333 and later in the Karlsruhe Convention of 1996. In addition, in the declaration of the Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Gerhard Schröder and the President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac on the 40th anniversary of the Élysée- Contract of January 22, 2003 expressly called for the establishment of Eurodistricts.
A euro district draws up a program for the cooperation and integration of the cities and municipalities in the area concerned. These include, for example, improving transport links for the people who live and work on the different sides of the border. It also promotes cross-border regional identity and thus European integration.
The term Eurodistrict / eurodistrict is only recently and has not yet been defined by organizations such as the Council of Europe or the European Union . A demarcation to the European regions is difficult in individual cases, whereby the focus of the Eurodistrict is more on the metropolitan area.
Establishment / agreement
Eurodistricts can be established or agreed in different ways:
- through a simple agreement on joint projects in the region.
- in an institutionalized manner by a local association for cross-border cooperation (French: groupement local de coopération transfrontalière (GLCT) ), which draws up plans for cross-border cooperation between cities and municipalities.
- With an even higher degree of institutionalization, through the transfer of power and elections by the citizens. This has constitutional implications for the individual countries involved, which must be taken into account when drawing up the agreements.
Existing Eurodistricts
Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict
The Strasbourg-Ortenau Eurodistrict was established on October 17, 2005 as the first Eurodistrict. On March 14, 2013, further partners were added on the French side.
Participating partners (members since March 2013 marked with *):
- City of Strasbourg
- Community Association Erstein
- Ortenau district
- City of Offenburg
- City of Lahr
- City of Kehl
- City of Achern
- City of Oberkirch
Eurodistrict Region Freiburg / Center et Sud Alsace
The Eurodistrict has existed since July 5th, 2006 in the region of South Baden and Alsace.
Partner:
- Freiburg region (voluntary association of)
- Freiburg city district
- District of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (and the associated communities)
- District of Emmendingen (and the associated communities)
- Grand Pays de Colmar
- Pays de la Région Mulhousienne
- Pays Rhin-Vignoble-Grand Ballon
- Pays de l'Alsace Centrale
Trinational Eurodistrict Basel (TEB)
The Eurodistrict Basel includes
- in Switzerland
- the canton of Basel-Stadt and its municipalities
- the canton of Basel-Landschaft and its municipalities
- the districts of Dorneck and Thierstein and the communities of the forum Schwarzbubenland in the canton of Solothurn
- some municipalities in the canton of Aargau
- in Germany
- the cities and municipalities of the district of Lörrach
- the towns of Wehr and Bad Säckingen from the Waldshut district
- in France the cities and municipalities
- the Communauté d'agglomération des Trois Frontières
- and other parishes in the greater Saint-Louis area
Members are too
- the Fricktal Regio Planning Association of the Canton of Aargau
- the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace )
- the Haut-Rhin department
It was only officially established in Saint-Louis on January 26, 2007 . The beginnings go back to 1995, when the TAB (Trinational Agglomeration Basel) was initiated.
PAMINA Eurodistrict
The PAMINA Eurodistrict includes
- in the southern Palatinate
- Association of the Rhine-Neckar Region
- Southern Wine Route district
- District of Germersheim
- Southwest Palatinate district
- City of Landau
- City of Germersheim
- on the Middle Upper Rhine
- Regional Association Middle Upper Rhine
- District of Karlsruhe
- Rastatt district
- City of Karlsruhe
- City of Baden-Baden
- City of Rastatt
- in northern Alsace
- Bas-Rhin department
- Alsace region
- Ville de Haguenau
Planned or required Eurodistricts
Eurodistrict Saar-Moselle
The association Zukunft SaarMoselle Avenir was founded in 1997. It was based in Saargemünd , the cooperation office for the implementation of the activities was in Saarbrücken. At the meeting in Heusweiler in 2004, Roland Roth ( Sarreguemines Confluences Association ) was elected President.
The resolution to found a special purpose association to promote cross-border cooperation was signed in 2004 on the Friendship Bridge (Germany-France) . With this Eurodistrict, 28 municipalities and associations of municipalities receive a cross-border structure.
On May 6, 2010 the founding meeting of the Eurodistrict SaarMoselle as the European association for territorial cooperation took place in the Franco-German Garden in Saarbrücken. Roland Roth, President of the Sarreguemines Confluences community association, was elected President in June 2016. Vice-President is Peter Gillo, Director of the Saarbrücken Regional Association.
The Eurodistrict SaarMoselle comprises a European agglomeration of one million people (including 26,000 cross-border commuters ).
Eurodistrict Meuse-Rhine
Since the city region of Aachen in the three-country corner forms a metropolitan area with Herzogenrath and Kerkrade (together Eurode ), Heerlen and the northern part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium , a special purpose association of the Eurodistrict Maas-Rhine is required.
Similar collaborations
Euro'met (Lille-Kortrijk-Tournai Eurodistrict)
Partner:
- APIM , Spatial Development Agency for the Lille Metropolitan Area
- UNIZO Regio Kortrijk, Union of Independent Entrepreneurs (of the Kortrijk Region )
- IDETA, Tournai Development Office
FC Eurodistrict
The FC EURODISTRICT is a binational sports and football club (founded in 2005) in the Baden / Alsace border region. It is supported by two associations of the same name (sister associations) based in Kehl and Strasbourg, which are striving to merge into a European association.
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Karlsruhe Convention ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of January 23, 1996 between DE, FR, LU and CH (PDF; 108 kB)
- ^ Joint declaration on the 40th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty. ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ Eurodistrict Region Freiburg - Center et Sud Alsace: Cooperation agreement Eurodistrikt Region Freiburg / Center et Sud Alsace. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, signed July 5, 2006).
- ↑ Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau: Agreement on the establishment of the Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau. ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, signed October 17, 2005 .; 76 kB)
- ↑ Eurodistrict Strasbourg-Ortenau: Press release about the enlargement of the euro-district Strasbourg-Ortenau. ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (DOC, March 15, 2013; 43 kB)
- ↑ Eurodistrict Basel: Constitutional speech by District Administrator Walter Schneider ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF, held January 26, 2007)
- ^ History and tasks of the association.
- ^ Communauté d'Agglomération Sarreguemines Confluences
- ↑ Patricia Klöpsch: Future, limitless. Saarbrücker Zeitung , 7./8. February 2004. S. B1.
- ↑ Saarbrücken-Moselle-Est Eurodistrict: Joint declaration by the municipalities and associations of municipalities on the Saarbrücken-Moselle-Est Eurodistrict. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
