Originally posted by RSA Blog (2018) Stochiero describes a macroregion as “a pragmatic approach to the need to find new ways for public policy to become more effective in a large multi-level cross-border area, with better coordination of existing institutions and resources”. This approach was confirmed by the creation of the Baltic Strategy. In the …
Category: Macro-Regions
2009: How Atlantic Cities started lobbying for the Atlantic Strategy
Originally posted in Atlantic Cities’ blog (March 2014) Five years ago, while preparing the Action Plan 2009-2011 for CAAC, I was asked to design the lobbying campaign of the Atlantic Arc Cities for an Atlantic Macro-region. My first thoughts on the issue were published at CAAC Newsletter, as far as June 2009, were the Atlantic …
What is a macro-region?
Originally posted at Atlantic Cities’ blog (March 2014) Since the approval of the Baltic Strategy in 2009, the term macroregion has become fashionable. The different EC communications on the implementation of this initiative, as well as for the Danube have been completed by scientific articles and policy positions from European territories. In a nutshell, we …
Developing economies and integration processes
The economic differences between North and South countries reflect for the last in a dual economy, given the internal divergences, many times inherited of the colonial past. This dual economy is characterised by the coexistence of more developed sectors with quite fragile others. Besides, most part of developing countries confronts high rates of persistent unemployment. …
Back to rural, back to plural
When analyzing the degree of development of a country or its economic potential, the agricultural sector and therefore rural sector usually fall on the negative side of the scale, when they are not in the queue of criteria and priorities. Rural is seen as backward or even without value in the scale of production when …
Biodiversity in the Atlantic Arc
Originally posted in Atlantic Cities blog (November 2012) In an Atlantic context marked by the crisis, the measures proposed must point to a balanced development of the territories as whole, avoiding artificial differentiation. The definition of the Atlantic Strategy and its Action Plan should reflect the development strategies identified by the Atlantic territories, allowing for …
Some notes on Community Led for Local Development
Originally posted at Atlantic Cities’ blog (October 2012) Analysis of the COTER Commission (CoR’s) position on the proposal of the Commission Based on the LEADER experiences, and with the aim to foster the ownership of the EU 2020 strategy, to facilitate bottom-up and integrated initiatives, the Commission proposed new tools such as “Community Led for Local …