Euroregion Pomerania

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The Euroregion Pomerania is a cross-border European region in northwestern Poland and northeastern Germany and is reminiscent of the former Prussian province of Pomerania, which is now divided .

Around 2.7 million people currently live in this European region. Its area is around 35,500 km². The Euroregion Council, made up of equal numbers of Germans and Poles, has its headquarters in the old capital, Szczecin . The aim of the Euroregion is to bring people in the German and Polish border regions closer together. A major challenge is above all overcoming prejudices and the limits in one's head, the legacy of three centuries of nation-state history . Germans and Poles still know little about each other and have remained strangers, not least because of the language barrier . This is where the work of the Euroregion begins. The German-Polish Youth Office is also an important part of this. The youth agency grants grants for youth encounters and projects.

By coordinating and supporting joint programs and investments in business, education, culture, infrastructure and environmental protection, we want to get closer. In addition to the establishment of an information system for the exchange of data in the Euroregion, cooperation is to be increased increasingly in combating disasters and emergency situations.

The historically grown west-east and north-south connections in the area of ​​the Euroregion Pomerania will be linked from the point of view of further European integration, whereby in the long term the harmonization of living conditions within the EU should also be achieved for the members of the Pomerania.

The founding agreement was signed on December 15, 1995 between Polish and German partners in Szczecin. The cooperation is based on a contract signed by Germans and Poles, which was also signed in 1998 by the southern Swedish community association Skåne län (Schonen / Skåne) . Skåne was a member of the Euroregion for fifteen years. However, in 2013 Sweden left the Euroregion again. At the time of Swedish Pomerania , Western Pomerania was part of Sweden, in whole or in part, for more than 150 years.

Cooperation with the Danish island of Bornholm and eastern Denmark is sought.

Members

Association of Polish Municipalities in the Pomerania Euroregion

The Polish association consists of 96 municipalities in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, including the city of Stettin, as well as the Miastko ( Rummelsburg ) municipality in the Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Zbąszyń ( Bentschen ) municipality in the Greater Poland Voivodeship .

Local community Europaregion POMERANIA e. V.

The German municipal community was founded in 1992 and joined the Pomerania Euroregion in 1995. Members are the cities of Stralsund , Greifswald and Neubrandenburg as well as the districts of Vorpommern-Rügen , Vorpommern-Greifswald and Mecklenburg Lake District from the state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania . From the state of Brandenburg , the districts of Uckermark and Barnim and Märkisch-Oderland have joined the association. The seat of the association is Löcknitz, near Stettin, in Western Pomerania. In Neubrandenburg and Schwedt the association maintains a so-called "service and advice center". Long-standing and first chairman of the municipal community Europaregion POMERANIA eV since 1992 was Peter Heise. Andrea Gronwald took over as Managing Director in 2014.

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  • Stralsund , one of the German member cities of the Pomerania Euroregion

  • Szczecin , one of the Polish member cities of the Pomerania Euroregion

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b What is the POMERANIA Euroregion? (No longer available online.) In: Pomerania.net. March 4, 2014, archived from the original on November 17, 2015 ; Retrieved June 13, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pomerania.net
  2. ↑ Rainer Marten: What should Pomerania do without her boss? in: Pasewalker Zeitung of June 30, 2014, p. 16.
  3. ↑ A woman is now at the head of Pomerania in: Nordkurier from July 1, 2014, p. 4.

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