The Foreign Policy of Italian Regions: Not Much Ado About Something?

Palermo, Francesco

doi:10.1080/03932720701406373

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“…Within the EGTC legal framework, the role played by Member States, and the way they perceive Regulation 1082/2006 helps us to understand the kind of governance that is promoted within and by the EU. The analysis of official EU, CoR and AEBR documentation, the interviews carried out for the present analysis between 2007 and 2010, highlight that the EGTC is negatively perceived by states as a 'new' institutional tool, allowing SNAs to exercise competencies ('high politics', such as defence and foreign policy) without states' control (Interview with Alfonso Andria, Italian MEP, 31 July 2009;CoR, 2007;Palermo, 2007). Member States' fears explain why the EGTC, though being an EU Regulation, has not yet been adopted by all 27 EU Member States, and why many argue that this EU Regulation seems to be more a Directive.…”

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“…For the present analysis, I will draw on ten interviews 1 that help to reconstruct the negotiation process that led to the establishment of Regulation 1082/2006. Perkmann (2003), Palermo (2007) and AEBR official documentation (AEBR, 2001) point out that local and regional border authorities have mobilized since the end of World War II in cross-border territories to solve problems both cross-border and local in nature (border workers, cross-border pollution, land-use planning or security issues) without necessarily turning to their capital cities in the hope that the Ministry for Foreign Affairs would take an interest in their local issues (EGTC Study, 2007, p. 18).…”

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Does the ‘European Grouping of Territorial Co‐operation’ Promote Multi‐level Governance within the European Union?

Nadalutti

2013

J of Common Market Studies

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Through the analysis of Regulation 1082/2006 (also known as ‘The European Grouping of Territorial Co‐operation’), which enables regional and local authorities from different European Union (EU) countries to set up co‐operation groupings as legal entities for projects of cross‐border and trans‐European significance, this article aims to assess whether the daily politics of the EU is still state driven in a zero‐sum game, and conversely, whether states and state representatives are no longer the only interface between the sub‐national and supranational levels and the operation of power across the various levels of governance on a local/national/supranational level in a non‐zero‐sum game. The article will show that a type of ‘multi‐level governance’ is emerging in cross‐border regions in which cross‐border activities are empowering the regional/local level (sub‐national level), permitting it to circumvent/supersede the national level through a process of negotiation and ‘alliances’. Furthermore, it will be highlighted that Regulation 1082/2006 is a clear example of multi‐level governance in practice.

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Does the ‘European Grouping of Territorial Co‐operation’ Promote Multi‐level Governance within the European Union?

Nadalutti

2013

J of Common Market Studies

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“…3, October 18, 2001), inaugurated a schizophrenic trend, with Italian regions rapidly increasing their foreign relations in the absence of a politically and institutionally mature context. 9 The expectation that subnational units would prove effective in their engagement with China in the trade and culture realms quickly turned out to be unrealistic: in 2007 an ad hoc scheme to leverage the specificity of individual Italian regions within a more integrated effort supported at the center by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was launched. 10 Only in recent years have policy-makers and academics attempted more organized reviews of China's place in Italy's current foreign relations.…”

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