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Cross-border
economic
development
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Territory portraits: economic development on different borders
Territory
portraits:
economic
development on
different borders
This first part aims to cover nine cross-border
areas, through territory portraits, mainly based on
interviews conducted by the Mission Opérationnelle
Transfrontalière during the course of this project
and that briefly set out the cross-border economic
relationships, the framework conditions, the labour
market and the players involved in economic
development. A broad description of the French
borders and three European comparisons (Denmark -
Germany, Vienna - Bratislava and neighboring regions,
Euregio Meuse-Rhine) are proposed.
The French and Belgian flags gathered by Thierry Verbeke, an artist based
in Northern France, during his residence at the former border post of
Rekkem-Ferrain, from April to October 2014, as part of the INTERREG
project “300 years of border”
© Thierry Verbeke