Europeanization through transnational territorial cooperation? The case of INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe

Dühr, Stefanie; Nadin, Vincent

doi:10.1080/02697450701666738

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“…This principle underpinned both the preparation of the ESDP and the introduction of the INTERREG Community Initiative promoting stronger cross-border and transnational collaboration between key actors in the territories concerned. (Dühr and Nadin 2007). Seeking 'European territorial co-operation' has now become a mainstream Structural Fund objective (CEC 2006a;Dühr and Nadin 2007).…”

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Collaborative governance and territorial rescaling in the UK: a comparative study of two EU Structural Funds programmes

Gore

2008

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Contemporary capitalist development facilitates the large-scale geographical reorganization of economic activity, involving both spatial clustering and decentralization. In the European Union the resulting regional disparities have provoked concerns about growing inequality on the one hand and poor competitiveness on the other. The concept of 'territorial cohesion' has been adopted to address such issues, with the need for co-operation across local, regional and national boundaries encouraged as a means of constructing more effective economic zones. This then raises the question whether the European Union's own Structural Funds programme has been able to contribute to such collaborative working. Evidence from South Yorkshire/Sheffield in England and the Central Valleys/Cardiff in Wales suggests that any contribution is likely to be modest. Both areas were covered by Objective 1 programmes between 2000 and 2006, but differed markedly in the extent to which collaborative governance structures and processes developed. Key factors were the extent to which moves in this direction were already under way, and the extent to which management and decision-making were devolved from the centre to local and sub-regional actors.

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“…(Dühr and Nadin 2007). Seeking 'European territorial co-operation' has now become a mainstream Structural Fund objective (CEC 2006a;Dühr and Nadin 2007).…”

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Collaborative governance and territorial rescaling in the UK: a comparative study of two EU Structural Funds programmes

Gore

2008

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“…For the past 30 years, the influence of European Union (EU) policy guidelines in the processes of national and regional planning of its member states has been steadily increasing. This phenomenon is described in the literature as the ‘Europe effect’, or Europeanization, and is deemed to have had a significant impact on the shaping of concepts, guidelines and strategic orientations of member states’ public policies (Ladrech, ; Börzel and Risse, ; Cowles and Caporaso, ; Featherstone and Radaelli, ; Vink, ; Radaelli, ; Dühr et al ., ; Clark and Jones, ; Ladrech, ; Rovnyi and Bachmann, ; Luukkonen, ).…”

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Re‐Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context

Marques

Saraiva

Santinha

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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The socio‐economic dimensions of cohesion have long been considered an integral part of Europeanization. However, recently a third dimension has been added to the Europe 2020 cohesion policy debate: territorial cohesion. Consequently this term is as yet undeveloped, resulting in a lack of consensus on how to define and interpret it. Such ambiguity represents a theoretical and empirical challenge to regional actors needing to respond to European Union (EU) directives while operationalizing the concept within their national and/or regional agendas. This article uses Portugal as a case study to examine how the concept of territorial cohesion is being interpreted and transposed from EU‐based to territorial‐based instruments and policy documents. First, we conducted a qualitative content analysis (QCA) of a selection of European and regional publications to compare their intrinsic discourses. This was followed by around 60 structured qualitative interviews, conducted with leading actors who had been instrumental in writing or implementing regional policy documents. On the basis of this dual analysis we conclude that, as a whole, the writers of the Portuguese strategic documents successfully transposed this concept, although perceptible differences exist between regions, as local actors have selectively redefined it to better suit their strategic priorities. These differences are debated with the aim of contributing to the design of effective public policies that facilitate inclusion, cohesion and Europeanization.

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“…Since the start of the twenty-first century, successive reforms to the system have pursued deregulation and simplification in the name of economic competitiveness, with representations of planning as a 'barrier' to growth being wielded repeatedly to promote 'efficiency and expedition' (Samuels, 2015, 646), especially for infrastructure investment. The effects have been to increase the power of developers and reinforce growth agendas whilst encouraging a dismantling of effective strategic planning, especially in England, eclipsing attention to complex issues like sustainability and spatial equity, and creating an ill-conducive context for developing more cohesive, integrated approaches to planning (Dühr and Nadin, 2007). The opportunities available to those who would use the planning system to promote environmental sustainability have been diminished (House of Commons Communities and Local Government Select Committee, 2014), dissipating the environmental-protection role of the system overall (Cowell, 2013;Lee et al, 2013).…”

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“…Here the EU has exerted influence through the generation of ideas, notably the much-discussed European Spatial Development Perspective and its successors (Morphet, 2015), from which concepts of sectorally integrated 'spatial planning' influenced previous Labour governments' Regional Spatial Strategies in England (Haughton et al, 2010) and national spatial planning by the devolved governments (Harris et al, 2002). EU funding has also incentivised action, with the INTERREG programme designed to foster collaboration between regions in different member states on cross-border and transnational issues (Colomb, 2007;Dühr and Nadin, 2007). UK planning authorities have been frequent participants.…”

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The EU referendum, planning and the environment: where now for the UK?

Cowell¹

2017

Town Planning Review

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Europeanization through transnational territorial cooperation? The case of INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe

Cited by 42 publications

References 14 publications

Collaborative governance and territorial rescaling in the UK: a comparative study of two EU Structural Funds programmes

Collaborative governance and territorial rescaling in the UK: a comparative study of two EU Structural Funds programmes

Re‐Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context

The EU referendum, planning and the environment: where now for the UK?

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