Euroregion Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Tisza
The Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Tisza Euroregion (DKMT) ( Romanian Dunăre-Criș-Mureș-Tisa , Hungarian Duna-Körös-Máros-Tiszá , Serbian Дунав-Криш-Мориш-Тиса Dunav-Kriš-Moriš-Tisa ) is a border crossing point European economic region founded in 1997 between Romania , Hungary and Serbia . The region is named after the rivers Danube , Kreisch , Marosch and Tisza flowing through it .
General Information
The Euroregion DKMT is located in the border triangle Romania-Serbia-Hungary and comprises the following regions:
- the districts of Arad , Caraş-Severin , Hunedoara , Timiş in Romania
- Bács-Kiskun , Békés , Csongrád-Csanád , Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok counties in Hungary
- the province of Vojvodina in Serbia
The DKMT has a total of 5,732,000 inhabitants and has an area of 77,456 square kilometers.
history
The border triangle Romania-Serbia-Hungary or the Banat is a historical region that developed its territorial cohesion during the period of the Habsburg Monarchy . The colonization of different ethnic-religious groups as part of the spatial planning measures of the Viennese court in the 19th century gave rise to the multi-ethnic character. The pattern of coexistence based on solidarity and the strong commitment to Western European values have shaped regional awareness across national borders. The historical region was divided by the Yugoslav-Romanian-Hungarian border with the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 . Relations between states froze and all infrastructure facilities were broken.
Already during the revolution of Timişoara in 1989 there were first considerations about the establishment of cross-border cooperation between civil organizations (NGO) and regional administrative units , which in the course of the 1990s first led to bilateral agreements between the various regions and finally to the establishment of the DKMT in 1997 . The charter was signed on November 21, 1997 in Szeged. The foundation ceremony is celebrated annually on the last weekend in May at the Triplex Confinium . The Triplex Confinium is an obelisk that is located at the border point of the border triangle Romania-Hungary-Serbia. With this opportunity the general assembly meets and the borders are temporarily opened. In 2005, the Euroregion DKMT became a member of the Working Group on European Border Regions (AEBR).
aims
The aim of the Euroregion DKMT is to develop and implement cross-border economic, cultural and tourism projects as well as joint sporting events. However, one of the most important goals of the DKMT Euroregion is to restore and expand traffic routes and infrastructure. There are currently 316 kilometers of motorway in the entire region. The Timișoara – Kikinda – Szeged railway is to be put back into operation with priority in order to restore the former Paris – Budapest – Szeged – Timișoara – Bucureşti – Istanbul transport network . Making the Bega Canal navigable and expanding the airports in Arad , Szeged , Timișoara , Novi Sad and Belgrade are also milestones in the development of the DKMT Euroregion. Part of the financial resources are provided by the European Union , the rest of the money must be borne by the countries themselves. The expansion of the tolerant coexistence of different languages, cultures and mentalities, which is already present due to the ethnic mix, is also to be promoted towards an understanding togetherness.
Working groups
The implementation of the goals of the Euroregion DKMT takes place through the activity of several working groups , which work out proposals, present projects and implement them. Some of these working groups are:
- The working group for economy , infrastructure and tourism
- The working group for environmental protection
- The working group for culture , sport and social affairs
- The Civil Protection Working Group
- The Health Care Working Group
- The working group for the development of supraregional industrial parks
- The working group on agriculture
- The International Relations and Marketing Working Group
Data
| country | region | Residents * | Area ** | Cities | Residents * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | Timiș County | 660,000 | 8,697 | Timișoara | 316.100 |
| Lugoj | 45,000 | ||||
| Hunedoara County | 486,000 | 7,063 | Deva | 77,000 | |
| Hunedoara | 80,000 | ||||
| Petroșani | 45,500 | ||||
| Arad district | 462,000 | 7,754 | Arad | 191.473 | |
| Caraș-Severin County | 333,000 | 8,514 | Reșița | 84,000 | |
| Caransebeş | 28,000 | ||||
| Total Romania | 1,941,000 | 32,028 | 867.073 | ||
| Serbia | Vojvodina | 2,014,000 | 21,506 | Novi Sad | 215,600 |
| Subotica | 99,500 | ||||
| Zrenjanin | 79,500 | ||||
| Pančevo | 76,400 | ||||
| Sombor | 51,100 | ||||
| Total Serbia | 2,014,000 | 21,506 | 521,500 | ||
| Hungary | Bács-Kiskun county | 547,000 | 8,445 | Kecskemét | 109,300 |
| Baja | 37,700 | ||||
| Kiskunfélegyháza | 31,400 | ||||
| Kiskunhalas | 29,500 | ||||
| Csongrád county | 427,000 | 4.263 | Szeged | 173.200 | |
| Hódmezővásárhely | 49,200 | ||||
| Szentes | 30,300 | ||||
| Mako | 25,600 | ||||
| Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county | 411,000 | 5,582 | Szolnok | 81,500 | |
| Jászberény | 28,300 | ||||
| Békés county | 392,000 | 5,632 | Békéscsaba | 67,400 | |
| Gyula | 33,000 | ||||
| Total Hungary | 1,777,000 | 23,922 | 696,400 | ||
| Total DKMT | 5,732,000 | 77,456 | 2,084,973 |
* Rounded figures ** Area in square kilometers 2
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See also
literature
- Horst Fassel : The "Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Theiss-Euroregion" in the tradition of the Banat willingness to cooperate , documentation for the 42nd cultural conference in Sindelfingen.
- Regional cooperation across the EU's external borders. The example of the DKMT Euroregion .- In: Ost-West-Gegeninformationen, 18. Jg., 2006, H. 3, Dossier S. I-IV.
- "Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Theiss Euroregion" - cross-border region in the "EU accession relay" .- In: Ost- Kommission- Informations, Issue 07-08 / 2005, p. 16.
- The DKMT-Euroregion as an Instrument for Cross Border Regional Development .- In: Romanian Review of Regional Studies, No. 1, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2005, pp. 27-34.
- Dezvoltarea economica in Euro-regiunea Dunare-Cris-Mures-Tisa. , Ed. Romania Representation of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Bucuresti, 2005.
- Horst Förster: Europe of the Regions - a multi-layered construct . In: Geographie und Schule, volume 25. Cologne, 2003
- Ralf Thomas Göllner: The Euroregion Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Theiss. Cross-border networks as a regional development strategy in the European context. In: Ungarn-Jahrbuch 29 (2008), pp. 319–374. → online (PDF file; 630 kB)
Web links
- The Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa Regional Cooperation dkmt.net
- Opportunity for growth for everyone dw-world.de
- Looking for the DKMT (PDF, 166 kB), suedosteuropa-gesellschaft.com
- Triplex Confinium on Panoramio
Individual evidence
- ↑ Integration and Exclusion in Eastern Europe (PDF; 1.26 MB), forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de
- ↑ Regions in Europe - Europe of the Regions ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2007 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; 69 kB), aei-ecsa.de
- ^ Andreea Oance: Cross-border events in western Romania. In: Banat newspaper . May 10, 2011, accessed January 24, 2017 .
- ^ Heinrich Rieser: Dezvoltarea economică în Euro-regiunea Dunăre-Criş-Mureş-Tisa (PDF, 566 kB), library.fes.de
- ↑ The Danube-Kreisch-Marosch-Theiss Euroregion (DKMT), as a model of cross-border development in Southeast Europe ( 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. , University of Tübingen , June 2005, accessed on April 3, 2011
