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European Centre for Research on Federalism, Tuebingen/Germany

Yearbook on Federalism 2004

Regionale und kommunale Kooperation in Europa [Regional and local cooperation in Europe]

Vision 2020 für Saar-Lor-Lux-Wallonien Mehr Chancen als Probleme?

Klaus Pöhle

pp. 383-397

Vision 2020 forms the road map for intensive cross-border cooperation/integration in the (grand) Großregion composed by the EU-member Luxembourg and its neighbouring regions in Germany (Saarland, Rhine-Palatine), in France (Lorraine) and the Belgium province of Luxembourg. A small group of outstanding personalities presided by the former president of the EU-Commission Jacques Santer presented 30 th of June 2003 an ambitious plan to the summit of this Großregion, which still needs formal approval. This article offers a first analysis of the road map and tries to identify chances and problems of implimentation. One big source of problems forms the geopolitical dimension itself of the Großregion: with 11,2 Mio. inhabitants the Großregion would be bigger than 18 of 25 EU-memberstates, but keen interest in cross-border cooperation is limited to the core region around the Grandduchy of Luxembourg.

Suggested citation for this article:
Pöhle, Klaus 2004: Vision 2020 für Saar-Lor-Lux-Wallonien Mehr Chancen als Probleme?, in: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung (ed.): Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2004. Föderalismus, Subsidiarität und Regionen in Europa, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, p. 383-397.